I understand that the Chicago tribune now has a book on these Ten-Things You Might Not Know pages. Well worth buying.
3. The anti-war protesters who descended on Chicago for the democratic National Convention in 1968 were adept at publicity. near the Picasso sculpture downtown, they appeared with a hog named PIGASUS and announced him as their candidate for president.
Seven protesters were arrested on charges of disturbing the peace and Pigasus was taken to the Anti-Cruelty Society, later to be adopted by a farmer in Grayslake. At the jail, a police officer told the suspects: "I've got bad news for you, boys. The pig squealed."
No way to treat a presidential candidate.
4. SAMUEL TILDEN infamously lost the hotly contested 1876 election by one electoral vote to Rutherford B. Hayes, but that didn't stop Wichita Falls, Texas, from including him when it named streets after presidents, slipping Tilden Street between Grant and Hayes streets. (In case you're wondering if you ever visit there.)
--Cooter
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