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Tong v. Chicago Park (2004)
Chicago bureaucrats would have smothered religious speech in a display of privately funded messages in a neighborhood park if the Becket
Fund had not secured an important victory for free religious speech.
A park fundraiser overseen by the Chicago Park District invited the community to purchase bricks engraved with an inscription chosen by the donor to be included in a neighborhood park walkway. The Becket Fund’s clients wanted to engrave the message “Jesus is the cornerstone” on their brick, but the proposed message was rejected because
of its religious content.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois agreed with the Becket Fund that rejecting the proposed engraving violated the First Amendment.
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