By far the most visible advocate of the referendum is Patrick Quinn, who is considered an all-around populist by his allies and a cause-of-the-week gadfly by his foes.
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In August Chicago waxed nostalgic. Twenty years earlier, a lot of white kids had been roughed up in the parks during the “police riot” that accompanied the Democratic Convention. Many of those kids were now movers and shakers. It was time to look back. But that had been the second and far lesser of the two great Chicago convulsions of 1968. The Reader chose to recall the other one. Gary Rivlin wrote:
Friday, April 5, 1968: Martin Luther King was dead, and thousands of young protesters stalked the streets of Chicago, exhibiting a harsh, unbridled rage the likes of which the city had never seen. Those living amid the rioting could do little more than pray that some mob wouldn’t converge on their building. Those living far away were gnawed by terror nonetheless, their fears fueled by the fires that illuminated the western sky . . .
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