DOWNTOWN — The French Consulate in Chicago is inviting the public to come together at Daley Plaza Sunday afternoon to memorialize those killed in this week's terror attack in Paris.
A memorial is planned for 3 p.m. at Daley Plaza.
On Wednesday, three men stormed the Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 journalists and cartoonists. A French policeman responding to the attack was also killed. On Thursday, a French policewoman was killed, and on Friday four people were killed when an acquaintance of the gunmen took over a Jewish market in Paris.
The hostage-taker and the gunmen were killed by French security forces.
Billed as a Solidarity Rally for Freedom and Tolerance, the Daley Plaza memorial will include a minute of silence "in tribute to the journalists, artists, hostages, police officers, to all those who lost their lives this week in France," the consulate said.
Charlie Hebdo was notorious for its skewering of any and all authority figures and religions. It drew the ire of Muslim extremists for its depictions of the prophet Muhammad and Islam.
For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here:
