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The Illinois Firefighter Memorial Plaza, Friends of the Lords Park Zoo and Gilbert Snow Mausoleum are among the 10 winners of this year s Elgin Mayor s Awards for Preservation.
The 2023 Mayor’s Awards for Preservation are to be presented to 10 recipients at a ceremony Tuesday, May 2, that can be viewed on the city of Elgin’s YouTube channel.
An idea more than three decades in the making came to fruition Saturday with the dedication of a plaza to memorialize firefighters who have served in Elgin and throughout the state.
The ceremony Saturday to dedicate the Illinois Firefighter Memorial Plaza the centerpiece of which is a towering statue of a firefighter holding an ax capped a four-year journey to bring the Elgin monument to fruition.