{"id":503072,"date":"2026-01-09T05:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:51:25","slug":"city-of-chicago-description-of-new-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503072\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Chicago :: Description of New Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rekiaboyd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Rekia Boyd Memorial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 3px 8px 3px 8px;\" title=\"The Rekia Boyd Memorial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rekiaboyd.jpg\" alt=\"The Rekia Boyd Memorial\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\"\/><\/a><strong>Title:<\/strong> The Rekia Boyd Memorial<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> TBD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Douglass Park<\/p>\n<p>The Rekia Boyd Monument Project follows a decade of public art activations in and around Douglass Park by the Chicago-based organization A Long Walk Home (ALWH), a national organization that uses art to empower young people and end violence against women and girls. In partnership with Monument Lab and community collaboration, the commissioned monument poses a central question: How do we build a monument that commemorates Rekia Boyd\u2019s legacy and celebrates Black girlhood? Through a selection process five finalists have been identified, with a winning proposal to be announced in early 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Nina Cooke John\u2019s \u201cSweet Harbor\u201d reimagining Douglass Park as a modern-day hush harbor \u2014 a contemplative gathering place to mourn Rekia\u2019s death while celebrating the lives of Black women who gathered there.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Tatyana Fazlalizadeh\u2019s \u201cFor Rekia, For Us\u201d three freestanding walls layered with murals, sound and bronze reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Tiff Massey\u2019s \u201cRekia\u2019s Sound Garden\u201d a landscape of braided metal drums, mirrors and swings.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Sonja Henderson\u2019s \u201cRekia Boyd Monument Project\u201d a 9-foot, bell-adorned Boyd standing at the center of an interactive sonic garden.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf And in Nekisha Durrett\u2019s \u201cR.E.K.I.A.,\u201d Boyd\u2019s name itself becomes architecture in five bold letters that create rooms for gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alongwalkhome.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"A Long Walk Home\">A Long Walk Home<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Title: The Rekia Boyd Memorial Artist: TBD Location: Douglass Park The Rekia Boyd Monument Project follows a decade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,225574,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-503072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-dcase-chicago-department-of-cultural-affairs-and-special-events-monuments-chicago-monuments-project","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115863583786863764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}