Fred Hampton Sr., a Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed in Chicago during a 1969 police raid, received an honorary street name on Saturday on the Near West Side.
Hampton’s friends and family, along with Mayor Brandon Johnson, gathered on the same portion of West Monroe Street where Hampton and fellow Black Panther Party member Mark Clark were killed in a raid ordered by Cook County State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan.
That block has now been designated Honorary Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. Way. Saturday would have been Hampton’s 77th birthday…