The rally at Daley Plaza started at noon with a moment of silence for the shootings in Minnesota before moving into the streets of downtown Chicago.

So-called "No Kings" protests took place in Chicago and across the U.S. on Saturday. The protesters gathered to reject "authoritarianism," according to organizers. The No Kings Day of Defiance is expected to be the largest single-day mobilization since President Trump returned to office.

An estimated 75,000 people flooded the Loop for the local edition of the nationwide movement to protest President Donald Trump.

The ‘No Kings’ protest rally in Elgin Saturday drew a huge crowd to Kimball Street armed with signs bearing messages like, “Rejecting Kings since 1776,” and chanting in opposition to

The largely peaceful protests during the "No Kings Day" demonstration in downtown Los Angeles took an intense turn in the afternoon. Police ordered the crowd to disperse at about 4:15 p.m. PDT near Alameda Street and Temple Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division.

Protests against the Trump administration are planned in cities across all 50 states, with some international protests planned as well.

A crowd-size expert from the U.K. estimates that between 10,000 to 15,000 people attended Saturday's protest in downtown Chicago. But some estimates say 75,000 people gathered downtown.

The sounds of one of Chicago’s largest protests in recent memory reverberated throughout downtown Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered in a united admonishment of President Trump.