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Illinois Police Officers Memorial
State salutes CPD’s fallen
Illinois Police Officers give the honorary salute to members of the Samuel Jimenez and Eduardo Marmolejo families at the end of the memorial ceremony.
Tributes in Springfield resonate with Department officers
■ BY DAN CAMPANA ■WPHOTOS BY H. RICK BAMMAN
earing mourning badges and their dress blues, officers traveled from across the state, disregarding the steady rain at every turn, to salute, honor and remember Chica- go’s four fallen officers as the state of Illinois formally embraced
the Chicago Police Department on the first Thursday in May. On yet another fittingly gray and dreary Illinois Police Offi- cers Memorial Day in Springfield, Commander Paul Bauer and Officers Samuel Jimenez, Conrad Gary and Eduardo Marmole- jo were added to the monument near the Illinois State Capitol commemorating the lives of police officers who died in the line of duty. Etched into the statue’s marble, the four names took their eternal place among the hundreds of others who were tak-
en too soon.
Several months have now passed since the unspeakably trag-
ic year of 2018 concluded. The city of Chicago came together and mourned its heroes four times last year, but even as that
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