The George Washington statue has stood on east 51st Street and King Drive near the northern end of Washington Park for 105 years. ...

CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago is restoring a 112-year-old bronze statue of George Washington that sits near Martin Luther King Drive. The city said Thursday that the sculpture will be removed ...

Photos from the scene show the statue, which is located in the 5500 block of South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, with spray-painted messages scrawled on its base. Earlier in the day, a white hood ...

The statue depicts Washington during the Revolutionary War. The massive monument has been on the South Side since 1904. "On MLK Drive, the irony of that," Calloway said.