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Memorial to Burge torture victims is about acknowledging pain, healing

First publishedJul 24, 11:00 UTC
Last updatedJul 24, 11:45 UTC · 5m ago
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<p>Public memorials reflect whom a city chooses to remember. Memorializing ugly historical truths is a chance for public healing.

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<p>Public memorials reflect whom a city chooses to remember. Memorializing ugly historical truths is a chance for public healing. Chicago is reckoning with both.</p><p>Earlier this month, the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/brandon-johnson/2026/07/08/johnson-breaks-ground-on-long-awaited-memorial-to-burge-torture-victims" >city broke ground</a> on a decade-old promise — the <a class="Link" href="https://ctjmfoundation.org/" target="_blank" >Chicago Torture Justice Memorial</a>, a permanent structure in the Washington Park neighborhood recognizing survivors of police torture under former Chicago Police Cmdr. For 20 years, beginning in 1973,<a class="Link" href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/10/30/payback" target="_blank" > Burge and other police officers at the Area 2 station beat, suffocated and electrically shocked </a>more than 100 Black and Brown folks for dirty confessions.

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<p>Public memorials reflect whom a city chooses to remember. Memorializing ugly historical truths is a chance for public healing.
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