Playbook's Stadium 50 -- Significant moments in North American stadium history
Chicago Stadium
Chicago Stadium, 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt receives Democratic nomination.
Breaking precedent, Roosevelt accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in person and promised in his speech that he would deliver a new deal for the American public. Chicago Stadium eventually was more famous as the arena where Michael Jordan would soar, but even His Airness never reached the heights there that a man handicapped by polio did on that day.
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