Editor’s note: This story originally was published as the cover story in the September 2016 print edition of the Chronicle.

located in the roundabout
garden in downtown Flossmoor,
is one of the village’s prominent
works of public art. (Photos by
Tom Houlihan/H-F Chronicle)
The young girl, frozen in time, looks skyward. She may be gazing at stars, or watching a sparrow in the trees. She is filled with hope and innocence…


