[Volokh] Jim Lindgren: Obama Rally in Downtown Chicago: What a long, strange trip it's been.

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Posted by Jim Lindgren:
Obama Rally in Downtown Chicago: What a long, strange trip it's been.
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_11_02-2008_11_08.shtml#1225844241


   About a half hour ago I drove past the Obama rally site in Grant Park
   on the lakefront in Chicago. The police were out in force and signs
   indicated that Lake Shore Drive would be closed entirely by 7pm CT.

   I have heard that between 500,000 and a million people are expected.

   I can't help thinking of what those who demonstrated at the 1968
   Democratic Convention in Grant Park 40 years ago must be thinking
   about the juxtaposition.

   What a long, strange trip it's been.