Tag: Chicago history
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Music: “Grown Old,” my 1986 reflection on the 1968 Chicago riots

As the Chicago DNC wound down last week, I recorded this song, which I wrote when a callow 24 year old. It was my take on how the 1968 yippie riot generation had aged, fifteen years on. At that time in my life I was starting to work closely with wealthy liberals and so got…