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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.
The problems facing residents of a Loop condominium property highlight the power that condo board members wield — and the headaches that can give owners.
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 June 19 federal and state holiday honors the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.