Music echoed through the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday as 15,000 people marched to demand a way for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. to become citizens. The protestors, holding "Amnesty Now" signs, danced and sang through the city, finally meeting together on 2nd Street, forming a sea of American flags waving in the air.

Downtown Los Angeles has long been associated with crime, drugs and the notorious Skid Row, yet with the recent explosion of loft living, the business hub of Los Angeles is getting something it has always lacked - residents. The loft movement began in the 1990s when handfuls of Angelinos, fed up with the busy traffic and long commutes, began living in large open loft spaces in the Historic Bank District.