Picnic in the park:

Fri. 6:30pm-9pm Picnic in the Park
Location: 901 N Clark

Join us for an evening of soap boxing, games, and food at Bughouse Square. Hear speeches from Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Durruti, and more!
If anyone is interested in checking out historical sites before the meet up, there are many sites close to the meetup spot, so feel to walk around and see where the streets came alive.

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Bughouse Square (from “bughouse,” slang for a mental health facility) is the popular name of Chicago’s Washington Square Park, where orators (“soapboxers”) held forth on warm-weather evenings from the 1910s through the mid-1960s. Located across Walton Street from the Newberry Library, Bughouse Square was the most celebrated outdoor free-speech center in the nation and a popular Chicago tourist attraction.
In its heyday during the 1920s and 1930s, poets, religionists, and cranks addressed the crowds, but the mainstays were soapboxers from the revolutionary left, especially from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Proletarian Party, Revolutionary Workers’ League, and more ephemeral groups. Many speakers became legendary, including anarchist Lucy Parsons, “clap doctor” Ben Reitman, labor-wars veteran John Loughman, socialist Frank Midney, feminist-Marxist Martha Biegler, Frederick Wilkesbarr (“The Sirfessor”), Herbert Shaw (the “Cosmic Kid”), the Sheridan twins (Jack and Jimmy), and one-armed “Cholly” Wendorf.