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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cancelled one of his signature rallies on Friday,
The announcement the billionaire businessman would postpone the rally led a large portion of the crowd inside the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion to break out into raucous cheers. Many rushed onto the floor, jumping up and down with their arms up in the air.
"Trump represents everything America is not and everything Chicago is not," said Kamran Siddiqui, 20, a student at the school. "We came in here and we wanted to shut this down. Because this is a great city and we don't want to let that person in here."
Some supporters of the Republican front-runner started chanting "We want Trump! We want Trump!" in response to the celebrations, and there were some isolated physical confrontations between members of the crowd. Chicago police said five people were arrested.
"It's a shame," said Trump supporter Bill Tail, 43. "They scream about tolerance, but are being intolerant themselves. That doesn't make sense."
Protesters celebrate outside of the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cancelled a campaign rally over safety concerns.
As Trump attempts to unify a fractured Republican Party ahead of next week's slate of winner-take-all primary elections, the confrontations between his legion of loyal supporters and protesters who accuse him of stoking racial hatred have become increasingly contentious, underscoring concerns about the divisive nature of his candidacy.
A North Carolina man was arrested after video footage showed him punching an African-American protester being led out of a Trump rally in that state on Wednesday. At that event, Mr Trump recalled a past protester as "a real bad dude."
"He was a rough guy, and he was punching. And we had some people - some rough guys like we have right in here - and they started punching back," Mr Trump said. "It was a beautiful thing."
At Mr Trump's rally earlier on Friday in St. Louis, he was repeatedly interrupted by protesters. Police there charged nearly three dozen people with general peace disturbance and one person with assault.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, second in delegates to Mr Trump in the Republican race, said late on Friday that the billionaire has created "an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse."
In a telephone interview after postponing his event in Chicago, Mr Trump said he didn't "want to see people hurt or worse" at the rally, telling MSNBC, "I think we did the right thing."
But Chicago police said they had sufficient manpower on scene to handle the situation and did not recommend Trump to cancel the rally. That decision was made "independently" by the campaign, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Mr Trump said the anger on display in Chicago wasn't directed at him or his campaign, but rather was a manifestation of the public's deep frustration with economic conditions in the country.
A North Carolina man was arrested after video footage showed him punching an African-American protester being led out of a Trump rally in that state on Wednesday. At that event, Mr Trump recalled a past protester as "a real bad dude."
"He was a rough guy, and he was punching. And we had some people - some rough guys like we have right in here - and they started punching back," Mr Trump said. "It was a beautiful thing."
At Mr Trump's rally earlier on Friday in St. Louis, he was repeatedly interrupted by protesters. Police there charged nearly three dozen people with general peace disturbance and one person with assault.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, second in delegates to Mr Trump in the Republican race, said late on Friday that the billionaire has created "an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse."
In a telephone interview after postponing his event in Chicago, Mr Trump said he didn't "want to see people hurt or worse" at the rally, telling MSNBC, "I think we did the right thing."
But Chicago police said they had sufficient manpower on scene to handle the situation and did not recommend Trump to cancel the rally. That decision was made "independently" by the campaign, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Mr Trump said the anger on display in Chicago wasn't directed at him or his campaign, but rather was a manifestation of the public's deep frustration with economic conditions in the country.
A police officer stands near a group of demonstrators outside a cancelled campaign event with Donald Trump.
"Our businesses are being taken away from us, our businesses are being moved out of the country," Mr Trump said on Fox News. "This is a demonstration against economic conditions on both sides."
But many of the protesters in Chicago said they were there to specifically to stop Mr Trump from speaking.
"Our country is not going to make it being divided by the views of Donald Trump," said Jermaine Hodge, a 37-year-old lifelong Chicago resident who owns a trucking company. "Our country is divided enough. Donald Trump, he's preaching hate. He's preaching division."
Demonstrators stand outside a cancelled campaign event with Donald Trump.
Dozens of University of Illinois at Chicago faculty and staff had petitioned university administrators earlier in the week to cancel the Friday night rally, citing concerns it would create a "hostile and physically dangerous environment" for students.
One Trump supporter at the Chicago rally said Mr Trump had created the environment that led to Friday night's melee by holding the event at the school - a civil and immigrant rights organizing hub with large minority student populations.
"I think he was kind of provoking things, to be honest with you," said Dan Kozak, 23, from suburban Tinley Park. "He could have picked the suburbs and nothing would have happened."
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