The Chicago Park District announced Thursday they reached a deal to end a lawsuit brought over the removal of Christopher Columbus statues from city parks during 2020 protests.

Mayor Brandon Johnson supports a plan to permanently remove Columbus statues from two parks. One statue will be relocated indoors to a planned Italian immigrant museum. Grant Park’s statue base ...

Columbus statues were defaced in Virginia and Boston. As cities and organizations across the country continue to take down monuments, memorials and other symbols of hate, one controversial ...

Chicago Park District reaches deal to end lawsuits over Columbus statue removal The Chicago Park District said Thursday that it has reached a deal to end a lawsuit over the removal of Chicago's ...

The Columbus statue in Arrigo Park will be “loaned” to a civic group for display in a new Chicago Museum of Italian Immigration on Taylor Street, under a deal that the group hopes could be a ...

Last remnant of Columbus statue being removed from Grant Park as city looks to add 'rotating art' The statue’s pedestal removal Thursday angered the president of the Joint Civic Committee of ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...

The Columbus statue in the same park has been vandalized numerous times, most recently in 2021. Other New Jersey cities took the approach to remove Columbus monuments from their community.