City stands by decision to remove Columbus statue from park chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Major General Umberto Nobile is not a historical personage whose fame resonates down the ages. Though he did a cool thing designed the dirigible Norge and piloted it over the North Pole with explorer Roald Admundsen in 1926, making them the first people to reach that distant axis.
Richard E. Byrd claimed to have beaten them by a few days, flying over the pole in an airplane. But that was later disputed. History has a way of changing its mind like that. Byrd was a hero, then; now he’s a fraud, maybe. Times change.
The story of Nobile’s arrival ran in the Chicago Daily News next to an article on Zenith testing short wave radio that’s where I bumped into him. Much new technology debuted in Chicago: VHS tape was first demonstrated here, cell phones, too. On July 8, 1926, while Nobile was arriving at LaSalle Street station, Zenith engineers in a freight yard in Englewood were showing off a new marvel, short wave radio, to communicate between the engine and the caboose of a New
Italian American group calls for restoring Columbus statue in Chicago s Arrigo Park chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It is time to return them : Italian-American group says city had no jurisdiction to remove Columbus statues
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Attorneys for the JCCIA said they found paperwork from over fifty years ago, which included a signed agreement that stated, The Park District will, in perpetuity, obtain the written approval of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans before making any substantial change to Columbus Plaza or the statue.
However, the committee says that was not the case.
The Arrigo Park statue was removed in the middle of the night in July, without written notice, attorneys said.
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An Italian-American group that has called for the city of Chicago to reinstall three Christopher Columbus statues taken down last summer says the city broke a long-standing deal when it removed the statues following peaceful and violent protests.
Ron Onesti, president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, says the group recently found a 1973 agreement with the Chicago Park District which he said clearly states, there can be no alterations of not only the Columbus Statue at Arrigo Park, but also Columbus Plaza as a whole.” Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5 Chicago app. Download it here for iOS or Android.