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Chicago graffiti artist Joos says his philosophy is ‘the wall needed painting’ Drawn uninvited to viaducts, L trains, abandoned buildings and other sometimes-dangerous settings, his artwork is ...
CHICAGO (CBS) – What began as graffiti under train tracks turned into a blossoming career for one Chicago man. He truly turned adversity into triumph, and now he's helping others do the same.
In each incident, people have either placed stickers or scrawled graffiti with antisemitic phrases on various surfaces.
IDOT has hard time keeping up with graffiti problem on area expressways 02:15. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago's graffiti problem is growing, and is visible to drivers every day on the expressways ...
Chicago graffiti has come a long way since the 1980s and early 1990s, when taggers held all-city meetings at places like Cabrini-Green, trashed the CTA and overwhelmed police and politicians.
Authorities were investigating on Monday after anti-Semitic graffiti and stickers were discovered in Chicago’s Hyde Park ...
Chicago’s first graffiti writers grew it from an outlaw activity to an artform embraced by the city. Here’s the story of Tyrue “Slang” Jones, one of Chicago’s original graffiti writers ...
The graffiti was gone by 10:30 a.m., less than 12 hours after police say seven people vandalized The Bean as well as the cancer survivor wall in Maggie Daley park nearby.
Graffiti artist Ralphy ‘Redr’ Campos dies of COVID-19 at 38: ‘He really had a great heart’ He lived on the Southwest Side in a ZIP code that’s recorded 2,506 cases, third-most in Illinois.
Unlike many Chicago street artists, Joos came to the medium later in life, first picking up a spray paint can in his 30s. It wasn’t an easy journey to get where he is today — but it’s one ...
Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago as well as Obama's former chief of staff, was nominated to be U.S. ambassador to Japan by President Biden in 2021 and assumed his post in March 2022.