Hey, I'm Linnea Dominic, Curious City intern, and right now the Curious City team is experimenting with some new fun formats for our podcast feed.

We're excited to share them with you in the next few months, but in the meantime, there's a lot going on in the news.

So we're curating a series of our best archived episodes that we hope will add context to what you're hearing and reading.

I for one love learning the context of well, everything.

And today we're taking on the issue of monuments.

Monuments to racist, colonizers, and Confederates continue to fall across the United States and around the world.

Legislators across the country are debating which statue should stay or go.

Plans are underway to remove an iconic and controversial monument.

There were cheers Thursday night at the foot of Richmond's Robert Ely statue after the governor announced.

Here in Chicago.

There goes Christopher Columbus. Today on the orders of

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the statue was removed in the dead of night, 3 a.m. Many people don't agree

with the mayor's decision, and people are divided about what should happen now that the statues have come down.

But how does someone even get a monument in the first place?

To answer that, we're returning to a story from 2018 that looks at two efforts to memorialize

influential black figures in Chicago and all that goes into putting up a monument.

Reporter Jake Smith takes it from here. David Stone is standing on the northeast corner of the Michigan Avenue Bridge,

looking at a sculpture.

It's a life-sized bronze bust of a distinguished-looking man with a mustache and a little goatee.

The bust is of Jean-Baptiste, Pointe Du Sable.

Today, Dussabel is considered the father of Chicago.

As the plaque on the bus says, he built his home on this spot in the late 1700s,

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