"Won't You Please Come to Chicago" -- Graham Nash

The year 1968 was a turbulent one for the United States with the Civil Rights movement in full swing and the youth of America openly questioning the authority of their parents' generation to dictate the rules of the world they lived in and its long-term effects on their own lives. Chicago experienced a huge protest turned riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention which later resulted in the Chicago Eight, a trial for the more outspoken "leaders" of the riot. It was in reference to this and further protests of the trial that Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young wrote his song "Chicago".