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