Mother Cabrini monument to replace Columbus statue in Chicago's Arrigo Park
A new statue will be standing in Arrigo Park in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, replacing the Christopher Columbus statue that came down in 2020.
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A new statue will be standing in Arrigo Park in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, replacing the Christopher Columbus statue that came down in 2020.
A new statue will be standing in Arrigo Park in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood, replacing the Christopher Columbus statue that came down in 2020.
The City of Chicago, which owns the statues, will not be bringing the statues back to their former sites in Grant Park and Arrigo Park.
The City of Chicago, which owns the statues, will not be bringing the statues back to their former sites in Grant Park and Arrigo Park. But the city will loan the statue that was removed from Arrigo Park, at Polk and Loomis streets in Little Italy, to the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans.
The Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans calls the removal of the statues "selective censorship."
The Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans calls the removal of the statues "selective censorship." Jermont Terry reports.
The idea left some Chicagoans reflecting on how the city removed statues of Christopher Columbus from city parks.
Recently, there were rumbles that the mayor's administration wanted the George Washington statue removed. The idea left some Chicagoans reflecting on how the city removed statues of Christopher Columbus from city park, as Jermont Terry reports.
Ald. Lamont Robinson (4th) said Chicago needs more tributes to Black men and Black history.
