Pritzker: Raise state tax rate | Memories of the 1968 King riots

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Pritzker: Raise state tax rate | Memories of the 1968 King riots | Aqua Tower dream home

Memories of the 1968 King riots, a story Chicago would rather forget

Wednesday, Apr 4

John Kass: When America thinks of Chicago and 1968, it is usually about the Democratic National Convention, the yippies and the cops battling it out in the parks and Mayor Richard J. Daley shaking his angry face on national television. But if you're from Chicago, and if you were here then, you'd think of the West Side burning after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and the looting, chaos and despair that followed.

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