Still, for months, many pundits predicted a Democratic National Convention in Chicago this year would devolve into a scene out of 1968’s Vietnam era convention held in the city with days of ...

Chicago has hosted more presidential nominating conventions than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago ...

CHICAGO — Despite some protesters’ vows to “make it great like ’68,” history did not repeat itself, and the streets of Chicago did not descend into chaos during this year’s Democratic ...

The last time a presidential nominee was selected at a Democratic National Convention was in 1968, following RFK's ...

Final flotsam and jetsam from the 2024 Chicago Democratic National Convention.But first some clean-up on that 1968 debacle. Remember that Mike Wallace episode?. After Sneed revisited it two weeks ...

But this year’s Democratic delegates seem almost giddy over their nearly unanimous nominations of Vice President Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The most vivid images of the 1968 convention were ...

In the lead-up to the 2024 event, there was a lot of talk about the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention. But the DNC was also held in Chicago exactly half as long ago—in 1996, also at ...

The specter of 1968 – with its angry confrontations and police brutality – hung heavy over Chicago in the lead up to the Democratic National Convention, as if the largely uneventful 1996 ...

CHICAGO — As far as Chicago’s storied protests go, the numbers outside the Democratic National Convention were unremarkable. But organizers say they did something leaders inside didn’t: Make ...

Here's how Mayor Johnson, Gov. Pritzker, the Chicago police and the business community did at Democratic National Convention in their effort to impress, and to improve the city's reputation for ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday applauded the city’s employees, first responders and police officers and said the just-concluded Democratic National Convention was “the best ...

Expectations for massive protests in Chicago — which came a month after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee — were high. The largest protest in Milwaukee during the convention was ...