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Radio Extra: Neighborhood Sign Stolen 18 Times, Chamber Hopes 19th Sticks

By  Jon Hansen and Howard Ludwig | November 20, 2014 12:22pm 

 The "Welcome To Mt. Greenwood" sign at 111th Street and Pulaski Road was one of two signs posted on the east and west ends of the Southwest Side neighborhood's shopping district. The eastern sign was toppled and cracked in April 2013. The western sign, pictured here, remains standing on the campus of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences.
The "Welcome To Mt. Greenwood" sign at 111th Street and Pulaski Road was one of two signs posted on the east and west ends of the Southwest Side neighborhood's shopping district. The eastern sign was toppled and cracked in April 2013. The western sign, pictured here, remains standing on the campus of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences.
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MOUNT GREENWOOD — Even concrete couldn't prevent sign number 18 from the same fate the previous 17 met. 

Vandals decided to test the latest incarnation of the "Welcome to Mt. Greenwood" sign in April 2013, rocking it back and forth till it toppled and broke. 

Now the chamber of commerce is hoping to raise $5,000 for a new sign, complete with bricks, that they hope will be the last. 

On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Howard Ludwig explains where most of the signs have been found: