Animal Tongue Nailed To Tree In Logan Square

CHICAGO, IL — A footlong animal tongue has been hanging from a tree in the city's Logan Square neighborhood and baffling residents. Covered in ribbons and gouged with safety pins and nails, the tongue was strung up on a tree on the west side of Palmer Square Park. It appeared to be a cow's tongue, and had turned brown in the weather.

A Chicago Park District worker cut it down earlier this week, but many residents still have questions about who put it there, and whether it was modern art or a joke.

Some have speculated over social media that the tongue was put there as a statement about gentrification in the area. The Chicago Tribune first broke the story, and reported on the history behind public displays of tongues.

The Tribune interviewed an assistant professor, who said placing such a display in public often symbolizes people's belief that they don't have a voice in a justice system.

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