Several months ago, the mayor of Oak Lawn, a Chicago suburb, became
weary after watching driver after driver roll through the city's stop signs.
It may have never occurred to Mayor Dave Heilmann that having four-way
stops at seemingly every intersection in the town of 60,000 might have
encouraged people to disobey the stop signs. Rather than removing half the
signs to create two-way stops, Heilmann's solution was to erect a set of quirky
octagon signs underneath 150 stop signs in town that he paid for out of
his own pocket.
The first one I spotted while driving through the town south of Chicago
last October, weeks after the signs went up, turned out to be my favorite.
It commanded "Stop ... In the Name of Love," after the hit song by
Diana Ross and the Supremes. -John Sowell
