Chicago statues of Columbus, Presidents Washington
and Lincoln among commission’s list of 40 controversial
monuments throughout city
Chicago Tribune,
by
Gregory Pratt
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
2/17/2021 6:18:42 PM
Statues of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley, as well as the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, were among the 40 public statues and other commemorative markers identified on a list from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration on Wednesday for further review as part of “a racial healing and historical reckoning project” started last summer. (Snip) Not all 40 monuments will be taken down, city officials said, but they merit further discussion. It remains unclear whether the city will bring back the Columbus statues, as Lightfoot suggested.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ho72 2/17/2021 6:31:06 PM (No. 699727)
The list of things and persons now considered "offensive" offends me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 2/17/2021 6:36:23 PM (No. 699735)
P.C garbage brought to you by the always miserable left. Not content with being perpetually offended they want everyone else is miserable too. The preachers of tolerance hate America, they hate our Constitution, they hate......and they hate and they hate.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TJ54 2/17/2021 6:44:05 PM (No. 699738)
Well I already decided to never spend a dime in downtown Chicago, so I could care lesd
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/17/2021 6:48:34 PM (No. 699742)
Problematic. "Hey hey, ho ho, if they WHITE, they got to go."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/17/2021 6:50:11 PM (No. 699744)
The way things are going, in a few years the only statue left will be one of Jussie Smollett.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 2/17/2021 7:02:25 PM (No. 699756)
I had to go there twice in the last decade because my son lived there. Glad I don't ever have to go back there again as he moved back to AMERICA!
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It's not just statues, they have Columbus Park (near Austin Blvd) on the far westside, and they have a whole set of street names of the presidents that they presumably need to change too, I guess.
And, then when another group comes along in 50+ years, and they don't like what the current group installed, or took down, then what?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/17/2021 7:10:51 PM (No. 699762)
Racial healing? More like racial revenge.
Why exactly are people just going along with this nonsense? They're erasing and defiling our history and culture. Doesn't anybody care?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 7:19:21 PM (No. 699766)
The only workable solution is to burn Chicago down, clearly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lazyman 2/17/2021 8:37:09 PM (No. 699829)
Meanwhile shots are fired all night. Good luck with fixing things.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Condor44 2/17/2021 8:52:24 PM (No. 699838)
I recently watched a documentary on the Nazi occupation of Krakow, Poland. The first thing the Nazis did was to topple and remove all the monuments to Polish heroes and historical figures. This is exactly what is happening here. The facists are taking over. We have got to stand up and protect our heritage, and to stop this madness.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
The Remnants 2/17/2021 9:31:01 PM (No. 699867)
Monday, I couldn't figure out why the mail never arrived. Then, I went to the bank and wondered why they closed so early. Finally, someone told me that Monday, February 15 was - I guess the new - Presidents' Day! Why could not Monday, February 22 (formerly George Washington's Birthday) be Presidents' Day? Keeping it that date gave everyone a three-day holiday weekend and it was an actual Presidents' Day.
When the commission - I assume there is one - strips our country of every bit of history that we are proud of, we will end up looking like the colorless, grey every day, nothing anymore American, country like people lived under communism.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/18/2021 3:05:01 AM (No. 700042)
Maybe they should be replaced with a statue of Lori Lighthead getting a facial
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 2/18/2021 5:15:55 AM (No. 700060)
OP. Based upon the actions of past governors, the new motto cold be "Will the defendant please rise."
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And what's next? Pritzker not wanting to be out "woke" by Lightfoot declaring the motto 'Land of Lincoln' offensive and issuing new state license plates?