A city panel recommended Friday that Chicago permanently remove its three Christopher Columbus statues and the Balbo Monument in Burnham Park, and consider altering or removing nearly 40 other monuments.
permanently remove its three Christopher Columbus statues and the Balbo Monument in Burnham Park, and consider altering or removing nearly 40 other monuments.
The report contained a "counterpoint" essay arguing for the importance of the Columbus statues and the Balbo statue. In July 2020, Lightfoot ordered two Columbus statues "temporarily" removed in the middle of the night from Grant and Arrigo parks, based on information that something bad was about to happen. A third Columbus statue remains standing near 92nd Street and South Chicago Avenue.
DuSable Bridge reliefs that show"the Battle of Fort Dearborn within an allegorical narrative of the triumph of Western civilization. American Indians are used as merely a foil to help define the heroic acts and qualities of colonizing forces." Tablets dedicated to Cavelier De La Salle and Jolliet and Marquette at the DuSable Bridge state,"‘The first white men to pass through the Chicago River…,’ explicitly voice the ideology of white supremacy."
Three artworks need added context to "acknowledge the challenging legacies of their subjects," the panel wrote:
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