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From 1968 to today, volunteers in Chicago aim to connect visitors to their city, and to see some of the convention action themselves.
Then-Mayor Richard M. Daley “saw this as an opportunity to show a city that does work — not a city that crumbles under the pressure of protesters," said Leslie Fox, executive director of the 1996 convention's host committee. "The stakes were pretty high.”
The transit workers union wants the agency to stop using the $15.80-an-hour apprentices on crews who scrub exteriors of L cars using an acid-based cleaner.
With words by John Dudley and art by Scott Gray, "Big Shoulders" explores the journeys of several characters in Chicago who have big aspirations. The "urban fantasy" will feature aliens, dragons and immortal beings — but also plenty of Chicago history.