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 ...

The city will loan the small Columbus statue removed from Arrigo Park in July 2020 to the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans for display in a nearby museum.

CHICAGO - After years of debate and legal battles, the Christopher Columbus statue removed from Chicago’s Arrigo Park in 2020 will not return to its original location but will instead be ...

Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, standing at right, and Ald. Nick Sposato, seated, celebrate Columbus Day on Oct. 12, 2020, at Arrigo Park in Little Italy, where one of Chicago’s Columbus statues ...

The city removed a statue from the Near West Side's Arrigo Park in July of 2020. The removal became the focus of a longstanding lawsuit due to a 1968 agreement between the Chicago Park District ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --An Italian-American group is meeting at Arrigo Park to map out their next plan, to get a Christopher Columbus statue put back in place at the park. They will be at the park in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Italian-Americans across Chicago came together Sunday to "pack the park" as part of Italian Unity Day. The group met in Arrigo Park, which is one of the sites where the city ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A man was charged with vandalizing the Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park on the Near West Side early Saturday — two days before Christopher Columbus Day. Someone spotted ...

The lawsuit filed by the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans alleges the Chicago Park District breached a nearly 50-year-old contract when it removed the statue last year.

Crews removed statues of the explorer from Grant Park and Arrigo Park early on Friday. transcript [cheering] By Christine Hauser Statues of Christopher Columbus were taken down in two Chicago ...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot doesn’t believe in erasing history, and Walter Jacobson has a better late than never cheer for her while she is in favor of returning the Christopher Columbus monument to Arrigo ...