CHICAGO – Chicago has axed the winning design for its 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker, contending some may believe it depicts street gang signs.
Chicago requires residents with vehicles to buy the stickers and place them on the inside of their windshields. The city sells about 1.2 million stickers each year.
The sticker in question was designed by a 15-year-old boy who attends a school for troubled youth. It includes the city's skyline inside a heart, with hands pointing toward a police hat, firefighter helmet and paramedic symbol.
The boy said it was meant to honor city firefighters, paramedics and police. His mother said her son is not in a gang.
City Clerk Susana Mendoza says it's necessary to get rid of the design because of the suffering caused by gang violence.
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