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Controversial Statues Honoring Christopher Columbus Vandalized in Chicago

Two historic, controversial statues in Chicago honoring Christopher Columbus were recently splattered and sprayed with paint. In Grant Park, the Columbus statue erected in 1933 for the city’s second world’s fair had “BLM” — an abbreviation for Black Lives Matter — and “Genocide” spray-painted along its granite base. A couple of miles west, a 9-foot-tall bronze statue of Columbus had the word “Killer” sprayed along its side. This statue, a fixture of Arrigo Park in the Little Village neighborhood, was originally displayed in the Italian Pavilion of Chicago’s first world’s fair in 1893. In the wake of civil unrest over the death of George Floyd, the vandalism of Columbus statues in Chicago pales in comparison to such acts elsewhere in the country – at the Minnesota State Capitol, protesters tore a Columbus statue from its pedestal, and in Boston, a Columbus statue was removed by the city after someone beheaded it. Video and story by Evan Garcia for WTTW News #ChicagoTonightWTTW #WTTWNews