Past is not explicitly prologue, but as the rhetoric between state and federal officials regarding immigration enforcement and domestic military deployment simmers toward a boil, the curious mind noodles over Chicago’s history of civil unrest, to use a soft term for a legacy of violence and death that stretches back to before the Civil War.

Looking ahead to a purported surge in immigration enforcement operations at the end of next week in confluence with the always robust Mexican Independence Day in the Pilsen neighborhood Sept. 6, and freshly recalling inflamed passions in Los Angeles just a few weeks ago, engenders an uneasy feeling of concern for the need to one day erect monuments like those recalling Haymarket, Pullman, the Red Summer of 1919 and more.

Hopefully I look back at tho

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