-- Carrol Cox <cbcox@ilstu.edu> wrote:

Thirty-seven years ago in the Bloomington PD there was a display window
of various mementos. One was a riot club passed down from a police
participant in the Riot to his grandson who had become a member of the
Bloomington PD. I made a fuss at the time to a couple people on the
McLean County Trades & Labor Council but whether they did anything about
it or not I don't know. Never been back there.

Carrol

P.S. Some Weather people did blow up the statue once, but I think it has
been rebuilt.

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The statue commemorating the cops that were killed was moved to
the Chicago Police academy years ago because as Carrol notes, it
was blown up and vandalized repeatedly.

A freeway dissects the Haymarket area - west of the interstate
is the gentrified neighborhood.  Directly east of the highway of
the highway is where the bombing originally occurred - on Des Plaines
Avenue between Randolph Street and Lake Street.  

A sculpture was erected there three years ago which generated
significant controversy. As the Committee For Labor Access writes,
"Thanks to a deal among the City of Chicago, the Police Dept., the
Chicago Federation of Labor, and the Illinois Labor History Society,
the theme of the new statue at Haymarket Square is not class struggle,
but "free speech."'  Beyond the mangled message, I'll be kind and say
that formally its weak as a piece of public sculpture.  

There's a bit more information and a picture of the piece at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot.  

Greg
gboozell@juno.com

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