DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials of a city in eastern Illinois are trying to move, clean and more prominently display a World War I memorial that’s nearly a century old.
The News-Gazette reports that Danville’s superintendent of community improvement, Shelly Larson, and superintendent of parks and public property, Steve Lane, have finished a proposed redesign for Victory Park, where the Victory Monument stands. Plans include moving the structure toward the center of the park, creating a parking lot and adding landscaping to enhance the monument.
The monument designed by sculptor Lorado Taft was dedicated in 1922. It features a bronze statue of Victory with four figures at her base, including a sailor, a soldier, a Marine and a Red Cross nurse.
The monument was moved to its current spot in the 1950s from an island in the middle of the nearby intersection.
