Why monuments in the US are being taken down The office of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement that the Columbus statues - in Grant Park and Arrigo Park - had been "temporarily removed ...

A Columbus statue in Grant Park, another in Arrigo Park on the Near West Side, and a third in the South Chicago neighborhood, were all taken down in the summer of 2020. "Those two statues—the ...

Statues of Christopher Columbus have been taken down from both Grant Park and Arrigo Park in Little Italy early Friday, a week after protesters trying to topple the monument to the Italian ...

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Four years after then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered statues of Christopher Columbus removed from Chicago’s Grant and Arrigo ...