Lightfoot Declines to Endorse Commission’s Call to Remove 13 Racist Monuments, Including 3 Columbus Statues

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Lightfoot Declines to Endorse Commission’s Call to Remove 13 Racist Monuments, Including 3 Columbus Statues
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“I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I agree with everything that was recommended. I don’t. I’ve been pretty clear about that,” said Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

“I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I agree with everything that was recommended,” Lightfoot said at an unrelated news conference. “I don’t. I’ve been pretty clear about that.”

All four reliefs on the bridge “place the history of Chicago and 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,” according to the commission report.

“As I’ve said, the devil is in the details,” said Lightfoot, adding that she wanted to understand what the cost of removing the statues would be. Ron Onesti of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans said on Friday the commission’s recommendations were “literally preposterous.”

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