Peace Pole Installed at Chamber Office

Joining in a global Rotary International initiative, the Chamber has added a Peace Pole monument at the corner of Walters Avenue and First Street. The seven-foot tall structure displays the message May Peace Prevail On Earth in eight languages spoken in Northbrook: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Farsi-Persian, Swahili, and Vietnamese. Other locally-spoken languages are represented on poles at the Northbrook Village Hall and Northbrook Bank & Trust.

According to the Rotary website, the message May Peace Prevail On Earth was authored by the late Masahisa Goi of Japan after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It is now an international message of peace with over 250,000 Peace Poles in every country in the world.  A global map showing pole locations is available here.