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In Chicago, a Battle Over a Religious Statue Is About Much More Than Religion

Por: The New York Times Nation December 18, 2022

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ACROSS THE COUNTRYBy Photographs by Dec. 17, 2022CHICAGO — On a cold Tuesday morning in Chicago, police officers lined an alley on the West Side. Across a chain-link fence, a group of people in parkas paced nervously in a backyard.Then the officers stepped aside. A three-ton statue wrapped in blue cloths was loaded from the vacant St. Adalbert Church onto the bed of a truck, beginning its slow journey down the alley.Even shrouded in blankets,... + full article



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