DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN CHICAGO HAVE BEEN IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK WITH PROTESTS AND LAWSUITS OVER WHO CAN PROTEST WHERE WHEN AND WHERE DOMINATING THE HEADLINES.

BUT THIS, OF COURSE, ISN'T THE FIRST TIME CHICAGO HAS DEALT WITH THESE ISSUES.

AND EVEN IF HE HAS THE SCOOP ON THE CITY'S LONG HISTORY WITH NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTIONS.

IN OUR LATEST EDITION W T TW NEWS EXPLAINS.

>> CHICAGO IS SET TO HOST THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION THIS SUMMER.

AND THAT WILL BE THE CITY'S 27 TIME HOSTING A NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTION.

IT'S TOUGH TO KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE EVENT, PERHAPS BECAUSE CHICAGO CONVENTIONS HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE MOST MEMORABLE ROCKETS AND CONSEQUENTIAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

TAKE THE FOR CHICAGO CONVENTION IN 18, 60 REPUBLICANS CHOSE A YOUNG ILLINOIS LAWYER NAMED ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO BE THEIR STANDARD-BEARER.

EVEN THOUGH LINCOLN DIDN'T EVEN ATTEND THE CONVENTION ITSELF.

THAT WAS 1912, WHERE THE SCENE AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION WAS SO TENSE.

EASTERN PART, WHY ARE SURROUNDING THE EVENT?

>> IT WAS PRESIDENT TEDDY ROOSEVELT VERSUS A SUCCESSOR INCUMBENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.

AND WHILE ROOSEVELT WON MOST OF THE PRIMARIES, PARTY LEADERS PICKED TAFT ANYWAY.

THE NEXT 8 ROOSEVELT SUPPORTERS STORMED THE NEW PROGRESSIVE PARTY.

>> AND 6 WEEKS LATER POSTED THEIR OWN CONVENTION IN THE SAME BUILDING, MEANING TEDDY, THEIR NOMINEE.

>> IN 1932, DURING THE DEPTHS OF THE DEPRESSION, CHICAGO HOSTED BOTH THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS.

REPUBLICANS NOMINATED HERBERT HOOVER FOR REELECTION.

WHILE THE DEMOCRATS CHOSE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT WHO INTRODUCED A LANDMARK PROPOSAL FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

>> LOVE THE AMERICAN FATE.

>> THE 1952 CONVENTIONS WERE THE FIRST TO BE TELEVISED LIVE COAST TO COAST HELD IN CHICAGO AGAIN WITH DEMOCRATS NOMINATING ILLINOIS GOVERNOR AT THE STEPHENSON, EVEN THOUGH HE EXPLICITLY SAID HE DID NOT WANT THE JOB, HE WENT ON TO LOSE IN A LANDSLIDE.

REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, DWIGHT EISENHOWER, LIKE FAST FORWARD TO INFAMOUS 1968 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION DESCENDED INTO VIOLENCE CHICAGO.

POLICE IN ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDSMEN LAST THOUSANDS PROTESTERS GRANT PARK WITH MAYOR DALEY DEFENDING LAW ENFORCEMENT.

>> THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WALKED AWAY HAVING NOMINATED HUBERT HUMPHREY AND THE PARTY DIVISIONS HIGHLIGHTED CHICAGO HELPED RICHARD NIXON BEAT HUMPHREY THAT CALL.

>> IT WAS 28 YEARS BEFORE CHICAGO GOT A RETURN ENGAGEMENT AND PERHAPS THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS THING THAT HAPPENED IN 1996, WAS DELEGATES DANCING THE MACARENA AHEAD PRESIDENT BILL HIS RENOMINATION.

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