- In another bad turn for a 2012-2013 city sticker design contest for Chicago students that last week became mired in controversy over gang symbols, the artwork of the runner-up winner will also not be used, City Clerk Susana Mendoza announced Saturday.
The “Chicago Heroes” design by Caitlin Henehan, a senior at Resurrection High School, was chosen after Mendoza nixed the previous winner’s entry because of questions posed by former police superintendent Jody Weiss and others about perceived gang signs incorporated into that 15-year-old boy’s drawing.
But because of “unwanted media and public scrutiny and criticism of her artwork,” Henehan’s family “has now requested that their child’s artwork not be used,” Mendoza said in a statement released with the family.
We figured that next year they were going to cancel the contest.
Good call by the parents of Ms. Henehan to quell this before it started getting really stupid. It was a lose/lose for their daughter no matter how it played out.
Good call by the parents of Ms. Henehan to quell this before it started getting really stupid. It was a lose/lose for their daughter no matter how it played out.