Chicago Seed Newspaper

Place: Chicago

Born: 1967

Death: 1974

Biography:

The Chicago Seed was an underground newspaper published biweekly in Chicago, Illinois from May 1967 to 1974. It was notable for its colorful psychedelic graphics and its eclectic, non-doctrinaire radical politics. Important events covered by Seed writers and artists were the trial of the Chicago Eight, Woodstock, and the murder of Fred Hampton. At its peak, the Seed circulated between 30,000 and 40,000 copies, with national distribution. The Chicago Seed was founded by Don Lewis and Earl Segal in 1967 and was published by Seed Publishing. The paper was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate.