Editing Battle of Fort Dearborn (section)

==Monuments==
{{Main|The Fort Dearborn Massacre Monument}}
In 1893, George Pullman had a sculpture he had commissioned from [[Carl Rohl-Smith]] erected near his house. It portrays the rescue of Margaret Helm, the stepdaughter of Chicago resident [[John Kinzie]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/browse/bioH.html| title=Hh| encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Chicago]]| access-date=2011-12-30| publisher=[[Chicago Historical Society]]}}</ref> and wife of Lieutenant Linai Taliaferro Helm,<ref>{{Harvnb|Helm|1912|p=93}}</ref> by Potawatomi chief [[Black Partridge (chief)|Black Partridge]], who led her and some others to Lake Michigan and helped her escape by boat.<ref name="Isaacs">{{cite web| url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/thebusiness/070323/| title=Blood on the Ground / Investing in the Future: Neighbors who want the Fort Dearborn massacre monument returned to its site are likely to face a battle.| author=Isaacs, Deanna| date=March 23, 2007| access-date=6 January 2009| work=[[Chicago Reader]]| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130408211055/http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/thebusiness/070323/| archive-date=8 April 2013| url-status=dead}}</ref> The monument was moved to the lobby of the [[Chicago History Museum|Chicago Historical Society]] in 1931. In the 1970s, however, Native American groups protested the display of the monument, and it was removed.

In the 1990s, the statue was reinstalled near 18th Street and Prairie Avenue, close to its original site, at the time of the revival of the [[Prairie Avenue District|Prairie Avenue Historic District]].<ref name="park" /> It was later removed for conservation reasons by the Office of Public Art of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.<ref name=FDMc1920>{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/6410.html| title=Fort Dearborn Monument, c.1920s| encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Chicago]]| publisher=[[Chicago Historical Society]]| access-date=2011-12-30}}</ref> There are some efforts to reinstall the monument, but it is meeting resistance from the Chicago [[American Indian Center]].<ref name="Isaacs" />

The battle is also memorialized with a sculpture by Henry Hering, called ''Defense'', which is located on the south western tender's house of the [[Michigan Avenue Bridge]], which partially covers the site of Fort Dearborn. There are also memorials in Chicago to individuals who fought in the battle. William Wells is commemorated in the naming of Wells Street,<ref>{{cite book | last=Hayner| first=Don| title=Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names| year=1988| publisher=Loyola University Press| isbn=0-8294-0597-6| author2=McNamee, Tom| page=132}}</ref> a north–south street and part of the original 1830 58-block [[plat]] of Chicago, while Nathan Heald is commemorated in the naming of [[Heald Square Monument|Heald Square]]. Ronan Park on the city's Far North Side honors Ensign [[George Ronan]], who was the first [[West Point]] graduate to die in battle.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Ronan-Park/| title=Ronan Park| publisher=[[Chicago Park District]]| access-date=2012-06-09}}</ref>