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Survivors of Chicago Police Torture Hold Groundbreaking Ceremony for South Side Memorial
Jul 8, 2026
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Eunice Alpasan
The memorial aims to honor the more than 125 Black men, women and children who were tortured by disgraced former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge, and the officers under his command, on Chicago’s South Side from the 1970s to 1990s.
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