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 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.

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 ...

The 9-foot-tall bronze Columbus statue at Arrigo Park was created for and displayed in the Italian Pavilion at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The statue in Arrigo Park on Chicago’s West Side, and two others elsewhere in the city, were removed last year after demonstrators swarmed […] Skip to content. All Sections. 69°F.

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 ...

In a statement Friday morning, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office said the two statues — one in Grant Park and one in Arrigo Park — had been temporarily removed “in response to demonstrations ...