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Celebrating in Chicago

Posted by Denise Power at 12:12PM EST, November 5, 2008

The crowd at Grant Park. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
Tuesday night brought balmy 60-degree temperatures and light breezes to one of this nation's chilliest cities. Packed-like-sardines crowd-goers uttered "Excuse me, may I slip by?" and "Sorry, was that your foot?" Chicago's finest, stationed around the perimeter of Grant Park on the city's lakefront, had little to do but thrust their chests forward and clasp hands behind their backs.

 

Wait a minute. Isn't this supposed to be Chicago, the U.S. Murder Capital that outpaced New York and Los Angeles on homicides this year? Don't major summer festivals in the park eventually break out in gang clashes and gunfire as crowds disperse? Wasn't Grant Park the scene of the 1968 Democratic Convention riots?

 


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