Vintage Chicago Tribune: The city's political convention history

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Vintage Chicago Tribune offers a look back at events, places and people involved in shaping Chicago’s past, present and future, in ways both small and big.

Arrival of the delegates to the 1860 Republican convention in Chicago, sketched by W.B. Baird in 1868.

Tribune editor Joseph Medill’s insistence on going full-bore for the presidency in the run-up to the 1860 election established Chicago as the go-to town for political conventions.Crowds gather to enter the Coliseum in Chicago for the 1920 Republican National Convention. The Coliseum was located at 15th Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago.

Chicago police officers head toward anti-war demonstrators in Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago. It was a rare moment of civility in a week of bloody battles — between the police, rebels with various causes and unlucky bystanders — that gave Chicago a long-lasting black eye.

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