Chicago In The 1960s And The 1970s

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Chicago in the late 1960s and the early 1970s was filled with construction and saw dust. The First National Bank, the Chase Tower on Daley Plaza was finished in 1969. The next year, the Hancock Building was finished, it was the tallest building outside New York City. Other events that happened around the same time was the Martin Luther King Jr. movement, he spoke at a Chicago Headline Club event (1966) and announced his project for the summer “to stir up “righteous trouble” in some of the big cities of America.” (WGN) Predictably, that summer there was a Chicago Freedom Movement, marchers protests and walked with linked arms in downtown Chicago. (WGN) The workers for all these strenuous jobs, were mostly the Mexican-Americans, they would work