This year’s Democratic ... more national political conventions than any other U.S. city. The first Chicago Democratic convention was in 1864, when the party was split over the Civil War; since ...

Red, white and bruising: at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, conflicts within the hall were amplified in violence on Chicago ... War II issues—inflation and consumer shortages, civil ...

Months before the Democratic National Convention ... by over 100 anti-war groups. (Later, these meetings will be used as evidence for conspiracy charges.) When the Chicago convention begins ...