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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom Schuba

As activists look forward to Dem convention, ex-Chicago police officials look back to lessons from turbulent NATO summit

Chicago police officers and protesters scuffle during an anti-NATO rally at South Michigan Avenue and Cermak Road on May 20, 2012. (John J. Kim / Sun-Times (file))

Shortly after Tuesday’s announcement that the Democratic National Convention will land in Chicago next summer, chatter about the violent convention here in 1968 reverberated across social media and stoked the partisan divide.

But former police officials say the city needs to look at lessons from a more recent turbulent event in Chicago, the NATO summit of 2012, which drew world leaders but led to the first terrorism case to be heard in a Cook County courtroom.

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