It's difficult to see from suburban skies because of all the streetlight pollution, and you won't see it at all from downtown Columbus. What makes Polaris special is that every other star you see changes its position over the course of a night. Polaris just sits there. Of course, the stars are so far away that from the perspective of a fixed point in space, they don't seem to be moving at all. We're the ones who are moving.
Earth rotates once every day.
At 40 degrees latitude, where Columbus is located, we are hurtling around the spinning terrestrial orb at 680 miles per hour. And that, folks, would knock your hat right off if your hat weren't also traveling at the same speed. In a sense, Polaris isn't fixed at all. Where it is in the sky depends on where you happening to be standing on Earth, as early sailors trying to find there way around soon learned. To the south of Earth's equator, the North Star is invisible below the northern horizon.