Nixon’s Chicago Loop Parade 1972
Curtis Wright Maps recently gifted this broadside to the AGSL showing President Nixon’s re-election event scheduled for October 30, 1972.
Richard Nixon and his wife Pat planned a re-election visit to the windy city that included bands, entertainment and a parade. An inset map on this broadside shows the route for the motorcade on La Salle Street.
However, a day before the event was scheduled to take place, a morning rush hour commuter train crash killed 44 people and left 332 injured. Nixon cancelled the event and sent his Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe to Chicago to guide relief efforts.
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