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How a creative entrepreneur and a community are securing the future of working-class families in a Chicago neighborhood.
“The evidence at the Chicago Police Board hearing was overwhelmingly in favor of Officer Hunt,” McKay said. “In fact, when the alleged victim testified at the hearing she identified some ...
56 years later: I'm protesting in Chicago again In April 1968, a running gun battle broke out between the militant Black Panthers and the Oakland, Calif., police.
A police officer crosses the road with a photographer during an anti-war protest near the Democratic National Convention headquarters in Chicago, Aug. 26, 1968. (UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) ...
When Chaos Came to Chicago: An Oral History of the 1968 Convention Riots When Democrats met that year, the violence that erupted between protesters and the police shook the nation.
The longtime Chicago broadcast icon covered the infamous unrest and police use of force that forever tainted the city's hosting of the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
Police clashed with anti-war protestors during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. This year’s convention, also in Chicago, takes place in a similarly charged political and social environment.
The return of the DNC to Chicago in 2024 has led many to look back at 1968 and draw parallels. Like back then, there will be anti-war protests - this time against the Biden administration's ...
Designed by Chicago filmmaker Yoni Goldstein, the game allows players to control the battle between demonstrators and the Establishment during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
The violence at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 shocked a fractured country. In a decade that had seen its share of bloody riots over the fight for civil rights, the Chicago Police ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- All political conventions come with protests, but none compare to the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. "Police were given free reign to use their clubs ...
CHICAGO -- All political conventions come with protests, but none compare to the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. "Police were given free reign to use their clubs and take ...