The Chicago Cipher
Chicago · 3 October 2026
The Great Chicago Fire started 155 years ago this Thursday. Ninety-eight years after that, a young man from Maywood stood up in front of a crowd and said what he thought you do about a fire.
Every letter below is standing in for another one. Tap a box, then tap the letter you think belongs there, and every box with that same code letter fills in at once. Two letters are on the house.
Fred HamptonChicago, 1969