Chicago officials will use a $6.8 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to build eight new public monuments, including a monument to the more than 100 Black men who were tortured by Chicago Police officers trained by Jon Burge, a disgraced Chicago police commander.
Along with $1.8 million from The Mellon Foundation, Mayor Johnson said another $1 million from the city will get the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial "across the finish line."
Bernina Mata s lawyers are asking Gov. J.B. Pritzker to grant her release from prison to fix what they call a "horrendous wrong." They have filed a petition for executive clemency,