I had a business appointment in Chicago's Loop this afternoon, and while walking north on Wacker Drive, I came across this plaque commemorating the Hotel Sauganash, an early Chicago inn, as well as the Wigwam, the building that hosted the city's first national political convention.
In 1860, the young Republican Party nominated favorite son Abraham Lincoln as its nominee. Chicago hosted a whole slew of other political conventions after that one, but of course the one that stands out, much to the city's chagrin, is the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Related posts: Thirty hours in Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois
Lincoln Bicentennial Commission playing with Lincoln Logs
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