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Mayor Brandon Johnson backs the plan to retire Columbus statues from Chicago's public parks. So where are they going now?
Mayor Brandon Johnson defended the decision Tuesday to permanently remove Christopher Columbus statues from two Chicago parks as an effort to show “our collective humanity.” The Grant Park and Arrigo ...
With the new deal, Mayor Brandon Johnson now holds responsibility for ending the long-running statue standoff, but urged ...
Max’s Mission, a local nonprofit dedicated to providing support for suicide loss survivors, wants to erect four new murals at Naperville’s Centennial Park.
The city announced last week that Christopher Columbus statues will not return to Grant and Arrigo parks, but Arrigo Park ...
Nor will another statue of the Italian explorer return to Arrigo Park in Little Italy, under an agreement between Chicago’s ...
The Chicago Park District reached a settlement over the 2020 removal of a Christopher Columbus statue from Arrigo Park. The statue will be loaned to a local Italian-American group for indoor display; ...