Directly west of Chicago’s iconic Buckingham Fountain sits the Congress Hotel. Itself an icon during its heyday of the early 20th century, the Congress is now a shabbier shade of its former self. But on June 12, the city’s left-labor bloc livened the place up by appearing, at first blush, to throw a raucous block party outside its doors. But it… return to article
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