by Susan | Mar 9, 2026 | Monuments
The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument is a bronze and marble public sculpture by artist Richard Hunt. Located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, the sculpture takes its name from a quote by civil rights activist and investigative...
by Susan | Oct 27, 2025 | Monuments
The Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument is a memorial to this advocate of free speech and the abolition of slavery. Lovejoy ran a newspaper called the St Louis Observer in Missouri, a slave state, when slavery advocates attacked and destroyed his presses three times. He moved...
by Susan | Sep 29, 2025 | Monuments
On August 16, 2024, President Biden designated a national monument at the site of the deadly 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill., a tragedy that led to the creation of the NAACP. “This site weaves together two important threads in our Nation’s story: the hateful...
by Susan | Feb 6, 2023 | Monuments
In 1952 Vienna-born artist Egon Weiner created two identical bronze groups for either side of the entrance to a building that, at the time, housed the headquarters of the Union of Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen. When the Union moved to Washington, D.C. in...
by Susan | Jun 20, 2022 | Monuments
The plaque reads: Suffering Humanity. Constructed of welded steel, this 200 pound, six foot tall sculpture was begun in 1968. Haunted by the realization that this work should speak to no particular war, no particular race, but to all wars and all humanity –...
