After spending thousands of dollars for new welcome to the city signs to be designed, Park Ridge aldermen voted to not move forward with plans to install the gateway boards after all.

Last year, the Park Ridge City Council agreed to pay $40,000 to design welcome signs to replace six wooden ones posted at various entry points into the city. The move wasn’t well beloved, and some members of the public complained the replacement process didn’t include community input. After the designs were unveiled in December, some complained they looked bland and had nothing to do with Park Ridge.

At the Sept. 2 City Council Committee of the Whole meeting, the whole project got scrapped.

At the meeting, a vote to approve the construction of eight welcome signs—at a cost of $215,000—got defeated by a 3-4

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