Today, the maps may read Washington Square Park, but for the better part of a century, this well-manicured plot of grass on Chicago’s Near North Side was once known as Bughouse Square, the city’s preeminent forum for free speech. At Bughouse Square, all forms of human miscellany—from anarchists to academics, poets to prostitutes, crooks to clergymen—gathered round, mounted soapboxes, and pontificated… return to article
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