Posted on 07/23/2021 8:07:50 AM PDT by PBRCat
An Italian-American organization has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Park District demanding the Christopher Columbus statue be returned to its pedestal at Arrigo Park in Little Italy.
The lawsuit filed by the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans claims the removal of the Columbus monument violates a nearly 50-year-old agreement the group has with the Park District that says it must obtain written consent from the organization “before making any substantial change to Columbus Plaza or Columbus Statue.”
The filing comes just three days short of the one-year anniversary of when the city removed the statue after mounting pressure from community activists.
The lawsuit lists the Park District, several of its executives and members of the Board of Commissioners as defendants. The city of Chicago and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are listed just as “respondents in discovery” and not as defendants.
The statue of Columbus in Arrigo Park was the center of several clashes with residents who wanted it removed because of the Italian explorer’s role in the atrocities committed against indigenous people in the Americas. Others, however, opposed the removal of the statue as an attempt to erase Italian-American culture.
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Send Guido and Rocco to see them.
You are proposing the statue would be protected by a group of Hollywood actors, one of whom has died? And one of whom plays in left-wing Bruce Springsteen’s rock band?
I am proposing that group only because the guy on the far right looks like Data from “Star Trek the Next Generation”.
They need 2 statues. One of Columbus, and another of a Viking looking over his shoulder toward the Columbus statue.
I remember a cartoon from years ago, I think it was Charles Addams but am not sure.
Columbus lands in the Islands, sees a horned Viking helmet in the brush, and tells one of his men..”Quick! Hide that thing!”
There is a statute of Leif Erikson in Chicago as well, but so fare the mob has not called for its removal.
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