Creating and Preserving Disorder: Royko, Daley, and the 1968 DNC

Thursday, August 29, 2024
6:00 - 7:00 PM CST
Newberry Library (Ruggles Hall)
60 West Walton Street Chicago

Registration opens on July 10.
This program is free and open to all

This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and live-streamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live-captioned.

Listen to the program HERE

Join Bill Savage, co-curator of "Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism," for a talk on the political history of the DNC in Chicago. During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, protesters chanted “The Whole World is Watching!” as the Chicago Police Department violently asserted its control over public spaces. Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko was watching, and reporting, on what was later defined as a “police riot.” Join us as Northwestern Professor Bill Savage examines the politics of protest, then and now, through the lens of Royko’s writing and the dynamic of public and semi-public, and private spaces in the city.

This event is part of programming connected with the Newberry's free exhibition, Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism, running through September 28, 2024 and is cosponsored by the Newberry Library and Chicago Collections Consortium. 

SPEAKER
Bill Savage, Professor of Instruction in English at Northwestern University, is a literary critic, teacher, writer, researcher, and live lit performer. His writing regularly appears in the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader, and he teaches frequent Adult Education classes at the Newberry. He is co-curator of the current exhibition, Chicago Style.