A Christopher Columbus statue removed in 2020 amid a climate of racial reckoning after the police killing of George Floyd has ...

Nor will another statue of the Italian explorer return to Arrigo Park in Little Italy, under an agreement between Chicago’s ...

With the new deal, Mayor Brandon Johnson now holds responsibility for ending the long-running statue standoff, but urged ...

Those who wanted the statue gone condemned the 15th-century Italian explorer as a white supremacist who touched off centuries of European oppression and the decimation of Indigenous peoples.