The majority of Columbus residents rarely visit city hall let alone even know where it is. The $1.5 million plus the $1.5 ...

Last year, a decades-long investigation led by forensic scientist José Antonio Lorente from the University of Granada in ...

A car adorned with American and Italian flags at a Columbus Day Parade in Medford, Mass., in 1978. Credit - Barbara Alper—Getty Images Each year, the U.S. federal holiday of Columbus Day—which falls ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A weekend of protests and violence over statues of Christopher Columbus prompted Mayor Lori Lightfoot to promise a review of the city's memorials, setting the stage for dialogue about ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Protests over the summer saw different Christopher Columbus statues in the city taken down and now, because of the pandemic, the annual Chicago parade will not take place. However, ...

Meanwhile, for years the city has handed out property tax abatements with abandon, for real estate development in the Short ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t actually Italian? Paesan-NO. Italian Americans and Columbus Day parade goers Monday saucily waved off the claim that new DNA evidence shows the controversial explorer was a ...

President Joe Biden issued a proclamation to recognize Oct. 14 as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus, the 15th century explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa, now part of ...

Christopher Columbus received some powerful Old World backing in Manhattan on Tuesday as New York City pols weigh whether to yank statues of him and other now-controversial historial figures. Italian ...

If you ask a New Yorker which monuments symbolize an immigrants introduction to this country, they’ll quickly note two famous statues: the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, and the statue of ...

HAMMONTON, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Sons of Italy of Hammonton, New Jersey plans to relocate their Christopher Columbus statue Friday. The plan is to move the statue from its current public location at ...