Chicago anti-Wall Street protesters marched with labor unions Monday in a joint effort to demand jobs for the masses.

Occupy Chicago joined forces with several unions participating in one of five Take Back Chicago marches scheduled for Monday afternoon. The various marches eventually joined forces at the Art Insitute Chicago to continue their demands for a solution to the unemployment crisis.

Recent DePaul grad Alex Cole was leading the chant of "banks got bailed out, we got sold out."

CHICAGO (CBS) — Thousands of protesters flooded downtown Chicago at five different locations Monday to participate in simultaneous marches to “Take Back Chicago.”

At least one arrest was reported and several participants were ticketed, police said, but overall the demonstrations were orderly.

As CBS 2’s Kris Habermehl reports, the Take Back Chicago protest was organized by the Chicago Teachers Union, labor groups and other organizations.

It's time for big banks to pay U.S. back!

The banks who crashed the economy are getting rich while working and middle class families are losing their homes and jobs by the millions.

A National People’s Action report released in 2009, with Senator Dick Durbin, showed that 2009 was the worst year ever for foreclosures in Chicago, with the crisis deepening in middle class communities.

The New Bottom Line campaign, a coalition of grassroots community, faith and labor organizations is releasing an update of the research report for 2011, and will be acting to get the attention of state attorney generals, or AGs, to push for a strong settlement with the banks that is fair to homeowners.

Payday lending is concentrated in communities of color across the Midwest. A new report reveals that Chicago is one of those cities hit hard by “credit segregation.”

Payday lending is a short-term loan until the borrower’s next paycheck. The problem is that interest rates are typically through the roof compared to traditional bank loans, and the customers tend to be the working poor. A non-profit called National People’s Action looked at where payday lenders are located.

Members of National People's Action and Illinois People's Action spoke at the Federal Joint Public Hearing on the Community Reinvestment Act Regulation this morning, right before heading over to Bank of America's downtown Chicago offices, to put talk to action.

The protest at Bank of America was, unfortunately, a familiar story: another family being unjustly foreclosed on, another loan workout delayed, and another crowd of Americans fed up with Bank of America's innane practices.

Dorothy Daniel, 78, never asked the government for a bailout like Bank of America did. But after making payments on time every month for her home of 40 years, she asked for help before she needed it, and now, Daniels, an amputee, is not only fighting for her life but to save her home from foreclosure.

Bank of America made more foreclosure filings in Chicago than any other lender or loan servicer last year and repossessed more homes here, according to a report released by community group National People's Action on Wednesday.

Bank of America made 17 percent of the 23,000 foreclosure filings in the city last year, or 3,950, the report said. The lender and loan servicer also repossessed 9.3 percent of homes lost to foreclosure, the report said.

It’s no secret that foreclosure is a problem in Chicago. Most every street is dotted with at least one or two boarded up homes or buildings, victims of a housing crisis that’s hit every corner of the city.

But who owns those foreclosed homes? National People’s Action set out to find out and just released a report with the results. Bank of America, they say, owns one of every five new foreclosure filings in the city.