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Amy Bizzarri, an Italian-American who lives in the city and teaches Italian in Chicago Public Schools, said she’d like to see the statue at Arrigo Park be replaced with something that tells the story of everyday Italian immigrants. “Those are true brave people, those are the true explorers, not Christopher Columbus."
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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A smart leader of an Italian-American group would say, “As the city removes all the Columbus statues, our organization looks forward to working with Mayor Lightfoot to find a suitable Italian-American replacements. And as a sign of good faith with the Italian American community, we anticipate the city will fund these replacement statues.”
Groups can pay, for their own statues! At the very least have a statue of an Italian American, such as Ms. Cabrini, not Cristoffa Corombo, who never set foot in the US. ?????
Go away. It’s time we stop negotiating with terrorists.
No. You go away! Cristoffa Corombo was the original terrorist! ?
Big talk from an uninformed illiterate. The biggest Marxist domestic terrorist organization is blm who must be stopped by any means necessary.
You are the uninformed illiterate. I never supported BLM. I’m discussing the original New World Terrorist, Cristoffa Corombo, Mr. Big Talk. ?
Sever the contracts and fire all these ‘teachers’. Enough of this editorializing passed off as knowledge.
Is this a joke? Who is this organization? Looks like the Sun Times got scammed or maybe they were in on the scam. “This symbol is dead,” Gabriel Piemonte, founder and president of the Italian American Heritage Society of Chicago, said Monday. From their website it looks like the Italian American Heritage Society of Chicago was created about a week ago. The address his organization uses is just mail box number at Shipping and Beyond on Taylor street, trying to look like some sort of legitimate Italian organization. Gabriel Piemonte ran for alderman in the fifth ward against Leslie Hairston… Read more »
He’s typical of the blm domestic terrorist organization. It’s a fake organization.
Joint Civic is fake. ?
She is a CTU member so she has no credence. She speaks for herself not the grater Italian American community.
No Columbus!
Explain why with facts. But of course that won’t happen. Be sure your facts are correctly academically cited if you know what I mean which I doubt.
Explain your Columbus idol worshipping.