Free Republic

Organizers of an AIDS memorial are asking the city Human Relations Commission to mediate a meeting of the group and some Lincoln Heights residents who allegedly shouted anti-gay sentiments at a recent meeting and have passed out fliers saying that the park memorial is not the way children should learn about the disease. The mostly publicly funded project, which would cost about $500,000, was approved last month by the Recreation and Parks Commission. The City Council is tentatively scheduled to take up the issue Wednesday. The $344,000 appropriation from the state general fund requires that it be constructed and that...