Chicago --

Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, leading to 130 arrests early Sunday, authorities said.

Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kaunert vowed after the arrests that protests would continue. "We're not going anywhere. There are still plenty of us," Kaunert said after the arrests.

Elsewhere, police reported 11 arrests overnight in the Occupy Cincinnati protests. Officers said those arrested had stayed in that city's Fountain Square after Sunday's 3 a.m. closing time and each was charged with criminal trespass. And in Philadelphia, police arrested more than a dozen protesters who camped out in the middle of the street across from police headquarters Sunday.

In Chicago, officers began taking people into custody just before 1 a.m. Sunday. Those arrested were led in groups to vans and two large white buses as others clamored to be arrested.

"Take me next! Take me next!" some shouted as police began the arrests. Others chanted as they were led away: "We'll be back!"

Officers had begun placing metal barricades around the area of Chicago's Grant Park known as Congress Plaza at 11:10 p.m. Saturday, minutes after the park had closed. Afterward, police went through the crowd and warned people to leave or risk arrest for remaining in the park in violation of a city ordinance.

Kaunert said none of the 130 arrested had resisted.

"Everybody was very peaceful and smiling, and there was no violence, though a lot of chanting," he said.

He urged authorities to let the people resume protesting peacefully against the perceived greed and other ills they see on Wall Street and elsewhere in corporate America. He noted it was the second straight weekend that arrests had been made in the park. About 175 were arrested the previous Sunday after protesters set up tents past public hours.

About 1,500 people gathered for the protest that began Saturday. Demonstrators descended on the park with hopes of making it the movement's permanent home. The group had started in Chicago's financial district before marching to the park.

Along the way, marchers chanted "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!" and held signs that read "Greed Sucks" and "No War But The Class War" while police on horses blocked them from walking on the street on Michigan Avenue, leaving them with just the sidewalks to occupy.

Occupy Wall Street began a month ago in New York among a few young people and has grown to tens of thousands around the country and the world.