A grant from the Mellon Foundation will pay for several new monuments, including one to survivors of former Cmdr. Jon Burge and his infamous ‘Midnight Crew.’
By Dan Mihalopoulos | WBEZ
A $6.8 million grant from private donors will fund new city monuments — including the long-promised “Chicago Torture Justice Memorial” on the South Side.
Mayor Brandon Johnson and other city officials spent part of Monday’s Juneteenth holiday at an event to announce the donation from the Mellon Foundation.
The memorial to survivors of torture at the hands of the Chicago Police Department will be dedicated to victims of former Cmdr. Jon Burge and his notorious “Midnight Crew” — who are believed to have coerced false confessions from more than 100 people, most of them Black men, between the 1970s and the 1990s.
11 plus dead this past weekend, most of them black and this mayor wants to talk about monuments?
Meanwhile, the entire city exists as a monument to the violence and hatred the city government has dished out on the citizens of the city.
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