The Beatles and Chicago,
Illinois, were both very hot in the sixties. The Beatles were hot because they sold
tons of records and concert tickets while radicalizing pop music, fashion, and
attitudes about drugs, sex, and religion. Chicago was a volatile hotbed of violence and
racism. In August, 1966, white supremacists pelted Martin Luther King, Jr.,
with rocks and racial epithets, prompting him to make the very pointed comment,
“I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to
hate.” Sixties Chicago was where the Catholic Church wielded extreme
conservative power, segregation still prevailed, murder ran rampant, and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
served as the site for an infamously violent clash between young protestors and
the police.
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