CHICAGO — Justin Hill, who moved back to Chicago two years ago after living and working abroad for some time, said he was out of the country on Jan. 6, 2021, when droves of people swarmed the U.S. Capitol.
“It’s a weird thing when you’re living in a foreign country and you’re watching the dissolution of your country’s whole famed idea that we are a peaceful democracy and there’s a peaceful transfer of power,” Hill said.
Roughly a year and a half later, Hill and a couple dozen others gathered Thursday evening in a back room at Bar Louis in the Dearborn Park neighborhood to watch the first of a series of live televised hearings revealing to the world the inner workings of the investigation into the insurrection.
