A history of Chicago's three statues of Christopher Columbus, which the city removed during the summer of 2020.
as part of Italian Day at the city’s A Century of Progress International Exposition., former Italian prime minister and leader of the country’s National Fascist Party, was one of four bas reliefs included in the statue’s pedestal.. “Might as well have a bust of Hitler.”A figure on the corner of the Christopher Columbus Memorial in Grant Park appeared to be Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini, according to a Tribune reader's observation in 1963.
“In no way was it intended to be a memorial to the Italian dictator,” said the younger Brioschi, who worked on the monument with his father. A statue of Christopher Columbus sits at 92nd and South Chicago Avenue at the Ice Water Fountain on Oct. 7, 1970, in Chicago. scanned from print, published on Oct. 8, 1970.
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