Statewide

Disco Demolition 40 Years Later; Racial Unity And Basketball; Du Quoin Fair Controversy


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Can the racial divide be overcome through a basketball tournament? Al Klunick tells us he wants to try with a unique event where kids of different races play together on the same team. It's one of the rules for the Community Unity tourney. This week marks 40 years since a baseball promotion in Chicago turned into chaos. While some look back on Disco Demolition Night fondly (the team even celebrated the anniversary this season), others see darker motives. We talk with the man who came up with the
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