Naperville Artist Repaints Horse Statue Damaged in Chicago

Photo credit: Horses of Honor Public Art - Chicago Police Memorial website 

A 20-year-resident of Naperville is hard at work on repairing a Horses of Honor statue that stood in front of the Wrigley Building in Chicago before it was damaged twice in recent days.

Diana Leviton Gondek, a Naperville artist who decorated the horse statue, had plans to begin work to repaint the statue on Wednesday after statue’s manufacturer glued it back together, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The fiberglass statue is meant to honor Foster District Officer Myles Smetana who died in 1999 and was damaged last weekend and again on Monday when a family knocked it over while leaning against it for a photo, according to the newspaper.

The horse statue is sponsored by Wendella Boats. There are dozens of Horses of Honor public art displays located throughout the city of Chicago that are meant to honor police officers that were killed in the line of duty.