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September 21, 1897, Oshkosh Northwestern

September 22, 1897, Oshkosh Northwestern

Well, this clinches it.  The whole idea was a joke?  I'll bet the other city fathers were really ticked off.  As it played off, the statue was moved to the corner of the then-newly constructed Columbus Memorial Building, located on State and Washington Street in downtown Chicago. The Columbus statue lost its perch on the Columbus Memorial Building when the building was torn down in 1959. The statue was then moved to the center of a granite fountain in Columbus Plaza of Arrigo Park on the corner of Loomis and Polk Street in the Old Italian section of Chicago.  In 2020, a monument project committee worked up a major report for monument management in light of the BLM demonstrations and the statue has now gone into storage.  This was the oldest and one of three Columbus statues throughout the city that were removed.