More questions raised about Mother Jones statue planned near Chicago's historic Water Tower: 'Why would we want any statue' there?

Top officials with the Chicago water department expressed concerns about putting a statue of labor activist Mother Jones at Jane Byrne Park, internal city emails show. Several officials received an email last December from Rosemary Feurer, a Northern Illinois University professor who has been a leading advocate for the Mother Jones statue, about having a news conference at the site between ...

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