A lifeguard accused of shooting two teens last week, killing one, resigned from the Chicago Park District in lieu of being ...

The Chicago Park District confirmed last week it has reached a settlement with the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans (JCCIA) regarding the Christopher Columbus statue removed from Arrigo ...

The Grant Park and Arrigo Park Columbus statues have hung in political limbo since former Mayor Lori Lightfoot removed them amid protests in 2020. But Johnson’s newly appointed Park District CEO ...

The Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park in the University Village neighborhood of Chicago in 2017. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune/TNS Gift this article ...

The statue was one of three Christopher Columbus statues that Chicago removed in 2020 during a wave of protests. The city removed a statue from the Near West Side's Arrigo Park in July of 2020.

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The City of Chicago, which owns the statues, will not be bringing the statues back to their former sites in Grant Park and Arrigo Park. But the city will loan the statue that was removed from ...

Back in 2020, then-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had the Grant Park and Arrigo Park Columbus statues — and one more in South Chicago — taken down.

The City of Chicago, which owns the statues, will not be bringing the statues back to their former sites in Grant Park and Arrigo Park. But the city will loan the statue that was removed from ...

The Chicago Park District has reached settlement in a lawsuit over the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park in July 2020.

The Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park was removed in 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune) By A.D. Quig | [email protected] | Chicago Tribune UPDATED: May 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM CDT ...