Chicago to design vehicle sticker itself Feb 11 09:34 PM US/Eastern CHICAGO (AP) - After a week of controversy, Chicago officials have decided to design the 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker themselves. The city axed the winning design by a 15-year-old boy Wednesday amid concerns that it may depict street gang signs. City Clerk Susana Mendoza had announced that the runner-up's design would be used instead. But Mendoza now says the runner-up's parents contacted her office and asked that the girl's design not be used "as a result of the unwanted media and public scrutiny and criticism of her artwork." Mendoza says the sticker design will be done in-house. But all finalists will receive the $1,000 savings bonds that come with winning the design contest. She says the office is reviewing the contest and whether it should continue.