However, there is a statue of black prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks that was unveiled on the South Side in 2018. And the Harold Washington Library Center contains multiple artistic tributes to Chicago's first black mayor. The city also renamed the Congress Expressway for black journalist Ida B. Wells in 2018.
Also, Chicago named several public housing projects after notable Blacks. The Robert Taylor Homes was named for black activist and first black chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. There was also an Ida B. Wells Homes.
Other cities across the U.S. have used temporary sculptures to explore the issue of expanding representation.
Before 2017, Philadelphia's roughly 1,500 pieces of public art and monuments did virtually nothing to recognize to recognize people of color and real women (as opposed to mythological figures). Then two arts organizations, Mural Arts Philadelphia and Monument Lab mounted a temporary citywide exhibition of 10 works by local and internationally known artists that shook things up.
--Cooter
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