Mayor Lightfoot is all for it:
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot considers tearing down 41 monuments across the city
Posted on 02/21/2021 8:27:56 AM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO — The city has unveiled the dozens of monuments it has flagged as potentially problematic — and it’s asking for residents’ feedback on what to do with them.
The city launched its Chicago Monuments Project website on Wednesday. It lists 41 monuments from around Chicago that were identified as needing “further review,” including famous pieces like the Illinois Centennial Monument at the heart of Logan Square and statues of Christopher Columbus and Abraham Lincoln.
The city did not say what will happen to the artwork it has flagged after residents weigh in, though.
The monuments that appear on the site were selected by the Chicago Monuments Project Advisory Committee, according to a Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events news release. The list includes a number of works that have been the subject of controversy, including multiples statues of Columbus and a monument to Italo Balbo, a fascist politician who served under Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Also flagged were statues of a number of presidents — including five of Lincoln, two of George Washington and one of Ulysses S. Grant — and multiple pieces of work that feature Indigenous people.(snip)
Chicagoans can review the artwork through the website and submit feedback on the pieces and how Chicago should memorialize its history. Feedback can be submitted through an online form.
Residents can also register online to participate in discussions where they’ll be able to speak with members of the advisory committee to ask questions and share their thoughts. Each session can have up to 20 participants, with the first “drop-in session” scheduled for 10-11 a.m. Tuesday.
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Mayor Lightfoot is all for it:
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot considers tearing down 41 monuments across the city
How about tearing down those walls spray painted with ACAB?
Please read my tagline.
When was the last time that Republicans governed Chicago?
The second thing a revolution does is to destroy all the statues.
Sounds like insurrection.
I have absolutely no reason to set foot in Chicago at this time.
That gives us 40 more reasons to stay away from the “Swamp of Stinking Onions”.
George Soros desperately wants to foment a civil war in the United States.
He’s using ignorant tools like Mzz. Lightfoot to accomplish his aims.
Groot is problematic, not the statues.
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Better not make a statue of that..unless it is inside!🤭
I really tire of woke-speak.
“Problematic” is just such speech.
Chicago has dozens of people shot to death every week—and they spend their time pondering which old statues, that nobody pays any attention to, are “racist” and therefore have to go? Chicago deserves to sink beneath the waves, a libtard cesspool.
Mayor William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson, 1920s
Yep a real clown show.
Thanks for naming the last Republican mayor of Chicago!
Mayor William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson, 1920s.
Over 100 years ago.
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