Mural honors deaf, hard-of-hearing community

A new mural in downtown Rockford, Illinois is designed to recognize the large deaf community in the city.

Image from the Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

It was painted by an artist known as Fatherless. Rockford resident Stacy Ritter told WREX-TV:

"To see something like that in a major display honoring our culture and our language it really makes us almost feel even more involved and more included in the Rockford community as a whole."

See a video report from WREX-TV here.