A $6.8 million grant from the MellonFdn will be used to build eight new public monuments, including a monument to the more than 100 Black men who were tortured by CPD officers trained by Jon Burge, a disgraced Chicago police commander.
Chicago agreed in May 2015 to build the memorial as part of a package of reparations that included payments of $5.5 million to 118 people — many of them innocent, most of them African American men — who were beaten, electrocuted or suffocated with plastic bags by Burge and his subordinates. The city also agreed to teach Chicago students in 8th and 10th grades about one of the darkest chapters in Chicago Police Department history.
The city has already earmarked $250,000 for the memorial and will donate the South Side land it will sit on, Johnson said. The memorial designed by Patricia Nguyen and John Lee, “Breath, Form & Freedom,” will include the names of the torture survivors, a timeline of events in the Burge case and a landscaped courtyard. That design was selected in June 2019.
Fired by the Chicago Police Department in 1993, Burge was convicted of perjury in 2010. Released from prison in 2014, Burge died four years later at the age of 70. He never faced criminal charges related to his time as an officer, and collected a pension from the city of Chicago until the day he died. Chicago taxpayers have already paid approximately $115 million in lawsuit settlements and judgments related to Burge and those under his command.
The seven other memorials to be funded by the grant from the Mellon Foundation will recognize “events, people and groups that historically have been excluded or underrepresented,” according to a statement from the mayor’s office.The George Washington Monument Intervention, by Chicago artist Amanda Williams
The commission was designed to “provide a vehicle to address the hard truths of Chicago’s racial history” and detail how the city could “memorialize Chicago’s true and complete history.” “Washington is the blackest name in the country,” Harkey said, referring to Chicago’s first Black mayor, Harold Washington.
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