The aldermen's proposal comes on the heels of a few days of incensed tweets from John Greenfield, editor of the transportation website Streetsblog Chicago, and Bill Savage, an author and associate professor at Northwestern University who often teaches the literary and cultural history of Chicago, both of whom called strongly for the removal of the Balbo monument. "I guess part of it is I ride by that monument a lot," Savage said, "and always cringe a little, because frankly, as a Chicagoan, it's embarrassing. For one, it's very close to the (Gold Star) memorial to police killed on the job — why would police want to be associated closely with fascism? You go for a stroll, contemplate (officers) who made the ultimate sacrifice, and a few yards away, there's this monument to a general who symbolized hate and the ugliness of fascism. I don't get it."