The Historian · Nora · Chicago
Bughouse Square (Washington Square Park)
For a century, anyone could stand on a soapbox here and say anything. Radicals, poets, and cranks — the loudest free speech in America.
Chicago's oldest existing park (1842), famous as 'Bughouse Square,' the great open-air free-speech forum.
— Nora, The Historian
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