Told you so!
Just two days after Chicago News Report ran a story questioning the lack of black police officers, firefighters, and paramedics in the runner-up's artwork, City Clerk Susana Mendoza announced Saturday that the city won't be using any of the students' designs.
From the Chicago Tribune:
The design by Caitlin Henehan, a senior at Resurrection High School, was chosen after Mendoza nixed the previous winner’s design because of questions about whether it incorporated gang symbols.
But because of “unwanted media and public scrutiny and criticism of artwork,” Henehan’s family “has now requested that their child’s artwork not be used,” Mendoza said in a statement today.
According to the Tribune, the city will design its own sticker.
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