ROCK ISLAND, Illinois— City Limits Bar and Grill hosted a breakfast fundraiser Thursday, December 8, to raise money to repair the Civil War Monument that once stood in front of the Rock Island County Courthouse.
The statue features the names of 450 soldiers from Rock Island County who served during the Civil war.
The monument tipped over back in 2014 causing chunks of the statue to break off, a committee was later formed by the Rock Island Sheriff’s Department in 2015 to manage the repairs.
The plan is to build a replica of the statue in bronze and to find a new home for the original.