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'We are the 1%"

"Occupy Chicago" protesters have camped out in front of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank for more than a week. The bank is in the city's cavernous Financial District on LaSalle Street, which ends at the Board of Trade building. Traders taunted the protesters by taping signs on the eighth floor windows of the building that said, "We Are the 1%."

Writes James Crugnale at Mediaite,

Traders at Chicago’s Board of Trade Building scrawled a missive directed at the Occupy Chicago protestors with signs taped on their eighth floor windows declaring “We Are The 1%”. Chicago’s branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement are calling this response, “Wall Street’s 1st Large Scale Response in Chicago.”

Occupy DC protesters had another response at Freedom Plaza yesterday: