The mayor said she wants to be "respectful" of "legacy projects" when reviewing Chicago's statues.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s long-delayed review of Chicago monuments still isn’t completed, but the mayor has restated her controversial pledge to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its prominent pedestal in Grant Park — the site of a bloody battle between police and demonstrators nearly two years ago.
“What’s important is to make sure that we’re really respectful of, I think, legacy projects that people across the city care deeply about and particularly those that have been the subject of controversy. I would say the Columbus statue in Grant Park in particular, making sure if that statue comes back, which I fully expect that it will, that we have a safety plan in place,” Lightfoot said at an unrelated news conference this week.
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