Weeks after a mural of a slain Ukrainian refugee appeared in a West Side neighborhood, a local Ukrainian group is fighting to prevent a second mural from going up.
Members of the Illinois chapter of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) received word from Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) that a constituent had made a request to paint a mural somewhere in the North Center neighborhood. It was not immediately clear if the proposed mural was linked to the North Center artwork of Iryna Zarutska. Villegas’ office didn’t provide a comment.
Zarutska, 23, was fatally stabbed last summer while riding a train home from work in Charlotte, North Carolina. Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have blamed Democrats for the stabbing because the man charged in the stabbing was in and out of jail several times in the last decade…