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Chicago Workers End Sit-In at Closed Factory

YES WE CAN! Workers celebrate outside the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago after voting to approve a $1.75 million settlement, ending a sit-in that lasted 6 days. (Chicago Tribune photo: E. Jason Wambsgans)

CHICAGO - With cheers and chants that echoed President-elect Barack Obama's campaign of change, jubilant workers agreed to a $1.75 million settlement that ends their six-day occupation of a shuttered Chicago factory that became a symbol of the plight of labor nationwide.