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Chicago Officials Break Ground for Memorial Honoring Police Torture Survivors
The project will be the first U.S. memorial to honor police torture survivors and includes public art, gardens and a community gathering space.
- On Wednesday, Chicago officials and survivors gathered in Washington Park for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, honoring victims of police torture at 5520 S. King Drive.
- The memorial fulfills a 2015 reparations promise to victims of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, whose "Midnight Crew" tortured suspects into false confessions between 1972 and 1991.
- Located at 5520 S. King Drive, the $4.7 million project features gardens and educational space, with the city selling the vacant lot to the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Foundation for $1.
- Mayor Brandon Johnson apologized to survivors at the ceremony, while organizers designed the site to symbolize the "vortex of injustice" that stole years from wrongfully convicted individuals.
- Construction of the memorial is expected to be completed next year, as survivor Anthony Holmes stated the project finally "validates what I've been saying all along" about police torture.
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Chicago torture survivors see long-awaited memorial become reality
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Johnson breaks ground on long-awaited memorial to Burge torture victims
Mayor Brandon Johnson promised during his first month in office to “rebuild the social contract” with Black Chicago, beginning with the actual construction of a permanent memorial to former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge torture victims that was promised in 2015.The “social contract” remains a work in progress, but the memorial is finally underway.With another apology to more than 125 Burge torture victims, Johnson joined those survivors, their …
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