The city’s public art tells a story; the Chicago Monuments Project is about to change that story. ChicagoDCASE | ✍️ DeannaIsaacs
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Lightfoot also sent two other Columbus statues to storage—one from Arrigo Park in Little Italy, the other from a South Chicago traffic island at 92nd Street. Then she announced the creation of the, which would reconsider the city’s public art from a “racial healing and historical reckoning” perspective, and would make suggestions to guide future commissions.
Last August, after numerous public meetings and a year or so of delay, the Monuments Project issued a thoughtful, comprehensive. It recommended permanent removal of the Columbus statues , but included a dissenting essay by Sergio Giangrande, an advisory committee member and former president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans.
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