[Chicago Sun-Times]

Bad blood between Chicago police and Lucy Parsons continues --60 years after her death.

Parsons, a feisty mixed-race reformer who described police as "organized bandits'' and "minions of the oppressing class,'' was an anarchist and wife of a man executed in connection with a cop killing in 1886.

The Chicago Park District is proposing to name a park for her on the Northwest Side as a recognition of her efforts on behalf of workers, women and African Americans.

The head of the Chicago police union is objecting, dismissing her as "a woman whose historic roots come from the defense of her husband.''