Current 41++ Jeremy Strong Trial Of Chicago 7. Strong recently experienced the other side playing sixties counterculture icon jerry rubin in sorkin's the trial of the chicago 7. Strong was apparently in a much more mischievous mood on the set of his upcoming film, the trial of the chicago 7. The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 democratic national convention in chicago, illinois.