Please join In Defense of Animals and Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA) for two days of action to free Rocky and Spur! Activists will be protesting outside Rocky's tiny cage in Northbrook, Illinois, and outside Spur's display case at The Animal Store in Lincolnwood, Illinois. 

Monday, September 19th will be the day of action for Rocky the coyote. As a pup Rocky was mistaken for a German Shepherd and was transferred to Illinois where he has been stuck in a cage for more than four years in Chicago's harsh freezing winters and hot and humid summers. We will be urging the Forest Preserves of Cook County to allow Rocky to go to the wonderful life awaiting him at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado instead of using tax dollars to imprison him in a larger cage.

Tuesday, September 20th will be our day of action to ban animal sales in Lincolnwood and free Spur, the large African sulcata tortoise who has been languishing in a tiny tiled display case at The Animal Store in Lincolnwood for more than thirty years. We will be urging Lincolnwood's trustees to enforce the law that’s already on their books which prohibits the sale of naturally wild animals, as well as opt-in to the Cook County law that bans the sale of rabbits.

WHAT:

In Defense of Animals will join Chicago Alliance for Animals to host collective protest actions. Signs will be provided.

WHEN & WHERE:

Monday, September 19, 2022

11 am – 12 pm – Protest/vigil outside Rocky's barren cage at River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook - meet in the River Trail Nature Center parking lot at 3120 Milwaukee Ave, Northbrook, IL 60062

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – After our silent protest/ vigil near Rocky's cage at River Trail Nature Center, we will make our way to the Forest Preserves of Cook County's Headquarters to peacefully protest their inhumane decision to deny Rocky sanctuary. Meet in the parking lot at 536 North Harlem Avenue River Forest, IL 60305 

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 

4 pm – 5 pm – Protest outside Spur's tiny display case at The Animal Store in Lincolnwood – please meet in The Animal Store parking lot 4364 W. Touhy Ave. Lincolnwood, IL 60712 but don’t park in the parking lot. 

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Protest outside Lincolnwood’s Village Board Meeting 

Village of Lincolnwood, 6900 N. Lincoln Avenue, Lincolnwood, IL 60712

7:15 pm – Additional: Testify (submit a public comment) inside Lincolnwood’s Village Board Meeting - (starts at 7:30 pm)

Village of Lincolnwood, 6900 N. Lincoln Avenue, Lincolnwood, IL 60712

*If you can only make one of the protests, that's completely fine. But if you can join us for more, that would be greatly appreciated. 

Check out the Facebook event page for the protest at the Nature Center for Rocky and the protest at The Animal Store for Spur.

Please note that the protests at the Forest Preserves of Cook County and the Lincolnwood Village board meeting protest are not part of the Facebook event page, as we are not publicizing them on social media beforehand.

For more information about the actions, contact brittany@idausa.org or chicagoallianceforanimals@gmail.com

Thank you for all that you do and we hope to see you soon!