In 'No Permit Necessary,' six Loyola University students explore the history of Washington Square Park, also known as Bughouse Square. rickkogan has more.
, have been buried in this park since 2009. Their ashes were tucked in the ground in a very informal service, since the city does not allow such ceremonies to take place in public spaces, a rule to which Terkel had said before his death, “I know it’s against the law. Let ‘em sue us.”
It all began after Garrett attended an event last summer at the Newberry. “It was there that I first learned about this park,” she says. “I brought up the idea to the others and we all decided to work together to dig into the rich history.”“We just didn’t know the scale, the many sides of the story,” says Hoag.
In “The Gold Coast and the Slum,” the 1929 landmark sociological study of the Near North Side, author Harvey Warren Zorbaugh wrote of these orators, “All their arguments come down to one or the other of two propositions: the economic system is all wrong, or there is no God.
Gary Chichester, an activist and former president of the Chicago Gay Alliance, is particularly moving, talking about the early days of the park as a meeting place for gay men and the beginnings of the pride movement. What would become the annual Gay Pride Parade began in Bughouse Square in June 1970, as a march of about 20 people.
“This was not a school project,” says Hoffman. “But I got to really devote myself to interviewing and editing, which I love.”
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