Back in 1993—for the 25th …
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Back in 1993—for the 25th anniversary of the 1968 convention—former WBEZ programmer Gary Covino devoted two episodes of the weekly free-form show “The Wild Room” to telling the story of the chaotic and violent events in Chicago, as well as the political and social turmoil of the time that made confrontations in the streets (and inside the convention hall itself) practically inevitable.