Marchers return to Marquette Park 60 years after historic MLK visit

The heavy rains that shuttered the third morning of Lollapalooza failed to dampen the crowds that marched toward Marquette Park on Saturday, retracing the very route the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. walked 60 years ago.

While the violent mobs who hurled stones at marchers in 1966 are long gone, civil rights advocates say their demands remained strikingly familiar and that the threat to democracy has not disappeared. Read the full story on The Chicago Tribune.

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