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A digital journalist for ABC7 covered live the march of the hotel workers down Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago. The tweets include short video clips of the workers' march and the photograph of the Cook Country Board President Toni Preckwinkle

Report on roads and bridges that suffered major damage from Florence. What repairs could cost segment.

Video report of Hurricane Florence striking North Carolina produced by Financial Times.

Video of Hurricane Florence From Space taken on September 10

This webpage gives information about the union of hospitality workers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Most of the recent material. This is a press release of the most recent news, i.e. that hundreds of hotel workers managed to receive their demanded…

This is an article from the Chicago Sun-Times. According to it, the strike was narrowed to only four hotels as of October 4, 2018, due to newly established contracts with the hotel workers. The strike continued in: Cambria Magnificent Mile, Crowne…

This article from Thinkprogress.org reveals that, after some time passed from the beginning of the strike, the hotels themselves declared that they need more time to negotiate the contract to the satisfaction of the strikers.

In this short news video, CBS Local describes the noise complaints from downtown Chicago residents, as the strikers are using drums, sirens, and bullhorns in their walks

On August 31, all the Chicago hotel workers unanimously decided to strike, after their employers failed to help them in their requests for better contracts and insurance concerns

The Chicago hotel strike of fall 2018 turned out to be the first mass hotel worker strike in the city since the beginning of the 20th century.