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CHICAGO — The raw divisions exposed by the presidential race were on full display across America on Wednesday, as protesters flooded city streets to condemn Donald Trump’s election in demonstrations that police said were mostly peaceful.

In Chicago, where thousands had recently poured into the streets to celebrate the Chicago Cubs’ first World Series victory in over a century, several thousand people marched through the Loop. They gathered outside Trump Tower, chanting “Not my president!”

                                                  Protesters march North on State Street to express their disapproval of the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States on November 9, 2016 in Chicago. Source: Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP

                                                  Protesters march near the Trump International Hotel and Tower to express their disapproval of the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States on November 9, 2016, in Chicago. Source: Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP

A similar protest in Manhattan drew about 1,000 people. Outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in midtown, police installed barricades to keep the demonstrators at bay.
                                                  Protesters demonstrate on Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower in New York on November 9, 2016, in opposition of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Source: AP Photo/Julie Jacobson

In Oregon, dozens of people blocked traffic in downtown Portland, burned American flags and forced a delay for trains on two light-rail lines. Earlier, the protest in downtown drew several Trump supporters, who taunted the demonstrators with signs. A lone Trump supporter was chased across Pioneer Courthouse Square and hit in the back with a skateboard before others intervened.
                                                   Several dozen students from various high schools in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area gather downtown to protest Republican nominee Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesdays presidential election, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. The protests were peaceful and students said that they felt compelled to demonstrate against Trump because they were not old enough to vote. Source: AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus

Hundreds massed in downtown Seattle streets.
                                                    Protesters block a street and stop traffic during a demonstration against President-elect Donald Trump on November 9, 2016, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Source: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

                                                    Police confront protesters during a demonstration against President-elect Donald Trump on November 9, 2016, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Source: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

 

Many held anti-Trump and #BlackLivesMatter signs and chanted slogans, including “Misogyny has to go,” and “The people united, will never be defeated.”

Five people were shot and injured in an area near the protest, but police said the shootings and the demonstration were unrelated.

Back in New York, several groups of protesters caused massive gridlock as police mobilized to contain them under a light rain.

They held signs that read “Trump Makes America Hate” and chanted “hey, hey, ho, ho Donald Trump has got to go.” and “Impeach Trump.”

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