The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

13 years later, Hero Street monument still unfinished

SILVIS -- Some of Silvis' Hero Street residents drive past the unfinished monument, park their cars in their driveways and watch their kids play outside every day. Although planning for the Hero ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Hero Street monument gets new artist

Five years ago - with donations of more than $160,000 - work began on the Hero Street Monument in Silvis to honor eight Hispanic Americans who lived on Hero Street and died during World War II and the ...
Quad-City Times

Hero Street Monument honors eight men who died in battles

SILVIS, Ill. — Long after the fighting is forgotten, the monument will stand. The Hero Street Monument, with its gleaming gold fixtures, has officially come home. It has been dedicated, blessed, ...