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Chicago clerk buying bond for sticker designer

This photo taken Nov. 28, 2011 shows the winning design for the 2012-13 city of Chicago vehicle sticker that was axed Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012, by Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza contending some may believe it depicts street gang signs. At the time his design was chosen winner of the city vehicle sticker student-art contest, 15-year-old Herbert Pulgar, said it was meant to honor city firefighters, paramedics and police. It includes the city's skyline inside a heart, with hands pointing toward a police hat, firefighter helmet and paramedic symbol. Officials sat the clerk's office began receiving calls Tuesday, after a blogger identified the hands depicted on the sticker as symbols flashed by members of a street gang. (AP Photo/Chicago Sun Times) CHICAGO OUT

This photo taken Dec, 12, 2011 shows 15-year-old Herbert Pulgar, holding his winning design for the 2012-13 city of Chicago vehicle sticker that was axed Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012, by Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza contending some may believe it depicts street gang signs. At the time his design was chosen in the city vehicle sticker student-art contest, Pulgar, said it was meant to honor city firefighters, paramedics and police. It includes the city's skyline inside a heart, with hands pointing toward a police hat, firefighter helmet and paramedic symbol. Officials sat the clerk's office began receiving calls Tuesday, after a blogger identified the hands depicted on the sticker as symbols flashed by members of a street gang. (AP Photo/Chicago Sun Times, Rich Hein) CHICAGO OUT

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The Associated Press Updated 10:31 AM Friday, February 10, 2012

CHICAGO — Chicago's city clerk says she will buy a $1,000 savings bond for the boy whose winning design for the 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker was scrapped because some believe it may depict gang signs.

The sticker in question was designed by 15-year-old Herbert Pulgar, 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.

City Clerk Susana Mendoza, reacting to concern the artwork contained gang signals, decided against its use.

The runner-up design will be used instead. That art depicts a firefighter, police officer and paramedic as superheroes.

Mendoza said Thursday she feels terrible by what Pulgar is going through.

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February 10, 2012 03:25 PM EST

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