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The City of Chicago, which owns the statues, will not be bringing the statues back to their former sites in Grant Park and ...
The statue will be indefinitely “loaned” to the Joint Civic Committee for Italian Americans for display at a building on ...
The city announced last week that Christopher Columbus statues will not return to Grant and Arrigo parks, but Arrigo Park ...
Despite a recent settlement, controversy continues over the Christopher Columbus statue that was removed from Arrigo Park. The Chicago Park District has reached a settlement last week in a lawsuit ...
The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame had to leave its home on Taylor Street in 2019 after its building was sold.
Yet we are in New York, where the aperitif with spritz has become a habit even for Americans. And few want to give it up, despite it becoming increasingly expensive. 'I lived above an Italian ...
The holiday was established in 1892 to honor Italian Americans and reduce xenophobia after a mass lynching of Italian immigrants in New Orleans. While Columbus is credited with discovering the New ...
The Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO), a nonpartisan cultural nonprofit, stands behind President Trump's order to restore Columbus Day's prominence as the ...
The festival honors Tickfaw’s Italian-American heritage with new safety measures after recent festival violence.