Chicago North - Jonquil Park / Eagle Columns - by Richard Hunt

Eagle Columns with the sculptor Richard Hunt

Above Image: Eagle Columns with the sculptor Richard Hunt

Eagle Columns - by Richard Hunt 

1989

Location: Jonquil Park

in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of North Side Chicago, IL.

Funded by grant from NEA Art in Public Places program and public funds

The sculpture commemorates two Chicagoans of the 1890's

 - Illinois Governor John Peter Algert, who pardoned three anarchists convicted of violence during the Haymarket Square riots 1886, on the ground that the trial was unfair.

 - Poet Vachel Lindsay, who eulogized Algert in a paean titled, "The Eagle that is Forgotten".

Eagle's Column - by Richard Hunt

Eagle's Column with sculptor Richard Hunt

The sculpture commemorates two Chicagoans of the 1890's

 - Illinois Governor John Peter Algert, who pardoned three anarchists convicted of violence during the Haymarket Square riots 1886, on the ground that the trial was unfair.

 - Poet Vachel Lindsay, who eulogized Algert in a paean titled, "The Eagle that is Forgotten".

The poem "The Eagle that is Forgotten" is inspribed on the sculpture.