A Chinese sculpture, which serves as the good will and relationship between Shanghai and Chicago, will soon find its new home in a park in Chicago, sources said Friday.

The city of Chicago has recently accepted a sculpture as a gift from Shanghai, one of its sister cities in China. Stone Talk, a sculpture of column made of stainless steel and granite, is the brain child of the well-known artist Yu Jiyong. It was one of the sculptures displayed at the Shanghai World Expo.

"The sculpture has the elements of earth and metal," Bill Spence, Co-chair of the China Committee, Chicago Sister Cities International, said in an interview with Xinhua. "To me, it symbolizes a mix of the new and the old, a dramatic combination of the new China and the old cultural tradition that dates back to five thousand years."

The discussion of having one of the sculptures from the Shanghai World Expo installed in Chicago started when former Chicago Mayor Delay visited Shanghai in September last year. Stone Talk, a straight column that represents "unity, harmony and growth" is selected among five pieces of sculpture that were offered for consideration by Shanghai.

"It's a very beautiful artwork," Jerry Fogelson, Founder and President of Fogelson Companies and Co-chairman and CEO of the Central Station Development Corporation, told Xinhua. Fogelson, one of the most successful real estate developers in Chicago, has offered to cover the transportation to move the sculpture from Shanghai to Chicago.

Fogelson plans to place the sculpture in a park in the Central Station area of the city.

"The sculpture has many features that will go well with this area," Fogelson said. "It's vertical, the tower of strength. It radiates the right, powerful feeling, and it's welcoming." In recent years, the Central Station has become Chicago's premier lakefront neighborhood. Many Asians, especially Chinese, have moved into this area.

"The sculpture symbolizes the relationship between China and the United States," Fogelson continued. "We'd like to turn an existing park in Central Station into a Chinese garden that will be designed to prominently feature the sculpture."

The sculpture Stone Talk is currently on display at the site of the Shanghai World Expo and will be shipped to Chicago soon.