After a massive rally in Grant Park, people took to downtown streets to show opposition to efforts including the deportation campaign that's deployed federal agents and troops to the Chicago area.

Chicago was one of dozens of cities nationwide that held "No Kings" protests Saturday. A quarter of a million people marched through downtown, organizers said.

The gatherings are part of a mass mobilization across the U.S. and globe positioned as a denouncement of President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies. In Chicago, they come amid sustained immigration raids.

The No Kings rally in Downtown Chicago was just one of many planned for around the Chicago area and the country. With their city caught in the country’s largest immigration enforcement operation, as many as 250,

Actor John Cusack delivered a fiery message to President Donald Trump during a CNN interview Saturday at Chicago's " No Kings " rally, telling the president to "go to hell" over the deployment of Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to his beloved hometown.

See 'No Kings' protest photos as demonstrations against the Trump administration return across the U.S., including in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland.

People gathered in Chicago and the suburbs Saturday for a "No Kings" protest amid ongoing federal immigration enforcement operations in the area.

Democrat leader claims President Donald Trump is using ICE as 'his personalized militarized occupying force' in rally speech. (Credit: WBBM)