Wells National Monument is made of granite and bronze and is located in a plaza at 37th Street and South Langley Avenue, on the former site of the Ida B.

The monument honors the intrepid, prolific and now iconic Black journalist and publisher Ida B. Wells-Barnett who lived in Chicago with her husband and children.

In addition, dozens of residents who lived in the public housing complex that carried Wells' name pitched in to draw attention to the effort and committed their resources to getting the monument built.

Residents who knew of Wells-Barnett's work creating the first kindergarten for Black children and helping to get the first Black alderman, Oscar DePriest, elected to the Chicago City Council chipped in donations to help pay for a monument that properly recognized the leaders' many contributions to humanity.

[4] The effort on Twitter by Michelle Duster to create support for the monument gained new momentum in 2018 when the activist, educator, author, prison abolitionist and determined patroness Mariame Kaba[5] and Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Foundation Genius Awardee, writer, speaker and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones[6] began advocating for the projects' completion.