(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Officials in Rolling Meadows are trying to find out who vandalized a 92-foot-long mural in a city park — an act that destroyed more than two months of work by high school students.
Red and green paint have marred the surface of a mural dedicated to the four seasons.
“It’s just devastating. I mean, park district team members, when we discovered it Friday, there were certainly tears,” says Rolling Meadows Park District Executive Director Kevin Romejko.
Rolling Meadows High School students started work on the mural in April, and the dedication in Kimball Hill Park was just two months ago, he said.
And now this.
“There doesn’t seem to be any direct tie to any sort of gang affiliation or any swastikas or anything of that nature, which just leads to the question of not only why did an individual or group feel like it needed to be done - and why now?” Romeiko asks.
Romejko says the park district will work with the high school to try to restore the mural.
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