Chicago's Legacy Walk was dedicated on National Coming-Out Day, October 11, 2012, in the heart of Boystown, a neighborhood known for being a center of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) life in Chicago. The Legacy Walk consists of twenty rainbow pillars situated along North Halsted Street, each of which contains bronze plaques honoring notable LGBT people from across the United States. The city of Chicago, which supported the creation of the Legacy Walk, also founded the Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1991. Both projects work to publicly acknowledge and share the history of LGBT people and communities.   

Legacy Project Chicago, the organization behind the walk, hopes that the project will help to make LGBT history more visible in Chicago, as well as provide positive role-models for LGBT youth. To further this goal, the organization currently has plans to open a visitors' center, which will provide a space for further reflection on LBGT history and action regarding issues facing LGBT communities today.   

This particular pillar honors David Kato Kisule, a LGBT activist in Uganda, and Jane Addams, a prominent Chicago social worker and activist. Other pillars include plaques honoring authors Lorraine Hansberry and Oscar Wilde, artist Frida Kahlo, politicians Barbara Jordan and Harvey Milk, physician Dr. Margaret Chung, and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, to name just a few.