CHICAGO (AP) – The University of Chicago has removed a plaque and stone that honored Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator from Illinois in the 1800s. President Robert Zimmer says Douglas doesn’t deserve to be honored on campus because he profited from his wife’s Mississippi plantation where Blacks were enslaved. Douglas probably is best known for a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858. He was a U.S. senator who lost the 1860 presidential election to Lincoln. Zimmer says a plaque and a stone from a university that preceded the University of Chicago would be moved to a campus research center.
