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Diaz Sign Receives Studs Terkel Award

Family-run business earns recognition for Pontiac Walldog event

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14 years ago

January 25, 2010

Louis M. Brill Signs of the Times January 2010 Issue

On January 19, the Pontiac (IL) City Council presented Bill, Jane, Ben and Joe Diaz, the family that operates Pontiac-based Diaz Sign, with the Illinois Humanities Council’s Studs Terkel Award for its coordination of the Pontiac Walldog meet last June. Several sign-industry veterans and members of the Letterhead traditional-signmaking movement converged in Pontiac to create several beautiful, large-format, hand-rendered murals. The Humanities Council bestows the awards for volunteers who “demonstrate a sustained and significant contribution to furthering public understanding of the humanities in their community … through projects related to historic preservation, heritage, education and the study of arts or music.”

For more information about the event, go to http://www.signweb.com/content/chief-city-chic

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