Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) told the Chicago Sun-Times late Thursday that the mayor made “a unilateral decision” to take that statue down along with another in Arrigo Park on the Near West Side.| Chicago Sun-Times
“Let’s have honest, hard conversations about the real truths of our history. ... Let’s start healing and unifying. That’s what we need to do. Particularly when we don’t see that happening by the leader in the White House.” the mayor said Thursday.| Chicago Sun-Times
While insisting she supports peaceful protests, she said on Friday, “what we saw … is a group of vigilantes” who formed a “phalanx,” then began “pummeling police with projectiles Frozen water bottles, cans, other projectiles.”| Chicago Sun-Times
After the statue was hit with graffiti over the weekend, some residents stood guard in front of Arrigo Park, where they argued with Black Lives Matter demonstrators.| Chicago Sun-Times
<p>He made it possible with his audacious and brazen decision to send a fleet of bulldozers into Meigs Field under cloak of darkness to carve giant| Chicago Sun-Times
