‘I Have The Biggest D*** In Chicago’: Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Accused Of Raging Against Officials Who Wanted To Display Columbus Statue: Report

According to a lawsuit filed by a former Chicago Park District deputy general counsel who made a deal with an Italian American group to allow a Christopher Columbus statue to be used in a parade, Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot furiously told him, “My d*** is bigger than yours and the Italians. I have the biggest d*** in Chicago.”

The prelude to Lightfoot’s alleged remarks involved Lightfoot’s 2020 order — after the death of George Floyd prompted nationwide protests — to remove two Christopher Columbus statues which had stood for decades in Grant Park and Little Italy’s Arrigo Park. “This step is about an effort to protect public safety and to preserve a safe space for an inclusive and democratic public dialogue about our city’s symbols,” Lightfoot stated.

The statues were removed and placed in a city storage facility.

Then, prior to Columbus Day in October 2021, city Italian-American groups asked to display a Columbus statue temporarily during their Columbus Day parade and proposed placing it last in the parade and covered until the end, the lawsuit states. George Smyrniotis, who filed the lawsuit against Lightfoot and the city, and his superiors at the Park District had agreed to the proposal, with the idea that the Park District thought it would generate goodwill with the Italian Americans. – READ MORE