Anti-NATO demonstrators descend on Chicago mayor's home

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Yahoo News:

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Around 500 demonstrators gathered outside the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday to protest the recent closure of mental health clinics as part of a series of rallies and marches timed to coincide with a NATO summit here.

But the protest was much smaller than one attended by an estimated 2,500 people at a downtown plaza on Friday. The biggest rally is expected to be on Sunday near the convention center where world leaders will gather.

The protest on Saturday began as a group of around 50 people, including some former patients of six city-run mental health clinics that closed at the end of April to save $2.3 million as part of a drive to eliminate the city's $650 million budget deficit.

"He (Emanuel) hasn't talked to us once, not once since he's been in office," said Marti Luckett, 60, a patient at one of the shuttered clinics who is bipolar and suffers from depression. "We want him to show up."

"I think President (Barack) Obama should be calling Rahm Emanuel and say 'shame on you,'" added Luckett, a petite woman with reddish hair.

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They were upset because they now don't have a place to stay?