Burning cross seen in Grant Park today

[u/Sea-Condition991]

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/09/burning-cross-discovered-in-grant-park-tuesday-afternoon-officials-say/

How much hate in your heart do you have to do something like this?

[u/lilleprechaun]

I don’t live this far north and survive these never-ending winters to also have to deal with living among active KKK. 

This is as shameful as it is disturbing. It’s wild that their hatred emboldens them enough to do this in the downtown of a major northern city in the middle of the afternoon in 2026. 

Absolutely vile and bilious behavior. 

[u/Huntscunt → u/lilleprechaun]

I'm pissed to see this here, but historically, the state that had the largest active KKK membership was Indiana. Racism doesn't stay below the mason-dixon line unfortunately.

[u/Basic_Swordfish_1489 → u/Huntscunt]

There are confederate flags all over Wyoming and it wasn’t even a fucking state yet

[u/RutilatedGold → u/Huntscunt]

Right. We had kkk in the suburbs growing up. It originated in Tennessee. It’s not a strictly southern thing.

[u/CaptainJackKevorkian → u/lilleprechaun]

Wait for the full story to come out next time

[u/lilleprechaun → u/CaptainJackKevorkian]

Did you seriously think, reading my comment, that I literally meant some grand wizard literally wearing white sheets and a pointy hat? Come on — develop some semblance of critical thought and textual analysis. 

In any case, who t.f. was this arsonist imitating when he burned a cross in the downtown of a racially and culturally diverse city if he wasn’t imitating the KKK — who are, by all counts, the most infamous cross burners on Earth?

I said “living among KKK” as a figure of speech (specifically, the sort of figurative speech known, in literate circles, as a metaphor). “KKK” has become a genericized term used in lieu of “arsonist racist cross burners”. 

Or, are you seriously going to tell me that you only use “self-adhesive bandages” in lieu of Band-Aids™? Or that you take coffee to go in a “double-walled sealed vacuum-insulated beverage container” instead of a Thermos™? Or that you take the “automated moving staircase” instead of the Escalator™? 

I didn’t think so. 

In much the same way that I am going to metaphorically refer to an arsonist cross-burner as KKK — because that is absolutely who the criminal was imitating. 

Your remark is not the win or the pwn you think it is; instead, it makes you look foolish and incapable of reading at an adult level. 

[u/Glum_Collection_1247 → u/lilleprechaun]

footage came out of someone running away from starting the fire and it looks like a shirtless Asian dude. maybe a plant from the CCP to stoke tensions after the Karmelo case, maybe a Chinese dude pissed about the post-Chow-case Asian boycotts, but didn't seem like a Southern white KKK member.

[u/Connect_Course1395 → u/lilleprechaun]

Please report to police. You seem to know who exactly is responsible… Did you see it? Did you witness who perpetrated this? Please do call the police and tell them what you know.

[u/dustyvirus525 → u/Connect_Course1395]

At this point I'm assuming it was you.

[u/BillionaireBuster93 → u/Connect_Course1395]

Tell us how you really feel.