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Protestors Play Tag With Police On Chicago Streets
Nearly 1,000 Yippies and antiwar demonstrators disrupted traffic in a four mile arc through Chicago’s famed streets during a day of protests. After peaceful hotel pickets at the Democratic National Convention sites, a late night unplanned romp through Near North Chicago led to brief rock throwing and about eight arrests as crowds regrouped near Lincoln Park.
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Chicago
U.S
Vietnam
Czechoslovakia
Hubert H. Humphrey
Conrad Hilton
Palmer House
Lincoln Park
Frisch’s
Office Outfitters
Loop
Clark Street
Humphrey Go
Huey
California
Black Panther
Huey P. Newton
Oakland
Carl Sandburg
Old Town