Survivors hope the memorial will ensure the Chicago Police Department’s crimes will never be justified nor forgotten.
on the city’s South Side, which provides clinical support to torture survivors and other victims of police violence. It also promised a permanent public memorial to survivors.
The delay is partly a matter of logistics; the reparations package had many parts, and it wasn’t possible to put everything in place immediately. The, an artist and activist-led collective central to advocating and implementing reparations, only selected a design in 2019. The final memorial proposal by artists Patricia Nguyen and John Lee is a 1,600-square-foot building with open ceilings.
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