Foreman Enrique Aguilar of Park City applies adhesive installing a reading child statue in the Stimson Sculpture Garden at the Waukegan Library. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Enrique Aguilar of Park City drills anchor holes into cement with Jose Sanroman of Round Lake Beach for the installation of a statue in the Stimson Sculpture Garden at the Waukegan Library. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
A reading frog statue waits for Enrique Aguilar of Park City to smooth cement for its base at the Stimson Sculpture Garden at the Waukegan Library. Aguilar is a foreman for Hirsch Brick and Stone in Park City who is installing the statues. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Foreman Enrique Aguilar (left) of Park City and Jose Sanroman of Round Lake Beach place a reading child statue with bench into position in the Stimson Sculpture Garden at the Waukegan Library. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Two children reading statue which will be installed in the Stimson Sculpture Garden at the Waukegan Library. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
A reading frog statue which will be installed at the Stimson Sculpture Garden at the Waukegan Library. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
A soccer ball is what remains of a stolen statue at the Stimson Sculpture Garden at the Waukegan Library. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
WAUKEGAN — The statues stolen from the Waukegan Public Library courtyard and sold as scrap last spring couldn’t be replaced for one practical reason: They weren’t in stock. “There was no longer a mold for either one of them,” said library spokeswoman Elizabeth Stearns, referring …
