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A city resident filed a lawsuit urging for a court order to stop the statue's removal, in hope that a decision is made by the Columbus City Council after a public hearing. [8] The Columbus Art Commission, which oversees the city's public art, voted unanimously to approve the statue's removal on June 24. The statue was removed and stored on July ...
Nearly three years after the Statue of Christopher Columbus was removed from the park (see above) the Chula Vista City Council voted unanimously to rename the park that references Columbus's apocryphal discovery of America to Kumeyaay Park of Chula Vista to honor the aboriginal title holders of the land it is in. [268]
In 2022, a Columbus statue was removed from the California Capitol rotunda. Also last year, crews removed a plywood box that had been placed over a Philadelphia statue of Christopher Columbus.
Christopher Columbus Statue (1892) located at South Chicago and Exchange Avenues, South Chicago, Chicago Temporarily removed by orders of Mayor Lori Lightfoot on July 31, 2020. At the time, it was the last known Columbus monument which wasn't removed.
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A statue of Christopher Columbus that stood in a St. Louis park for 134 years was removed Tuesday amid a growing national outcry against monuments to the 15th century explorer.
Three years after a Christopher Columbus statue was removed from a square in Providence, Rhode Island, the bronze cast has re-emerged, this time in a park in Johnston, Rhode Island, about 9 miles ...
In June 2020, on the order of mayor Jorge Elorza, the statue was removed from Columbus Square as the city had been dispatching police officers to watch the statue due to vandalism. [13] The order was given during a time of statue removals across the United States in the wake of the George Floyd protests. [13]
Multiple sources tell ABC7 Eyewitness News that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is planning to have crews remove the statues of Christopher Columbus from Grant Park and Little Italy.