Straight Outta Skokie

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1968 Al Krockey was eighteen years old-coming of age in the most culturally explosive era in American history. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the road to that moment began years earlier in Skokie Illinois where a block of co-op apartments and split-level houses felt like an entire universe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From hustling a buck-hawking souvenirs outside Wrigley Field working odd jobs and dealing a little weed-to chasing the music that defined a generation Krockey lived fast and wide open.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nights at Chicago's legendary Kinetic Playground cross-country trips to wild pop festivals and encounters with unforgettable characters turned 1968 into a year of freedom risk and discovery.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center></p>