Mayor Lori Lightfoot has known as for the elimination of 2 monuments to Christopher Columbus after violent clashes between police and protesters broke out closing week when activists tried to rip down a statue of the Italian explorer in Grant Park. Ald. Brian Hopkins (second) instructed the Chicago Sun-Times past due Thursday that Lightfoot made “a unilateral decision” to take down that statue and every other situated in Arrigo Park at the Near West Side. Hopkins mentioned the aim was once to have them got rid of Thursday night time. “At this hour, there is discussion about postponing the removal, but the mayor has not indicated any reversal of her decision,” he mentioned. The mayor’s workplace didn’t reply