BboyB grew up in Logan Square. In the early 80s, he became one of the first people doing hip-hop graffiti in Chicago, and in 1983 he cofounded the Angel and Berto Crew (he’s Berto), one of the ...

Leor Galil Flash grew up in Logan Square and was part of a small cadre of teenager writers who helped import hip-hop graffiti to Chicago in the late 70s and early 80s. “In the Chicago Public ...

Chicago’s first graffiti writers grew it from an outlaw ... Tyrue “Slang” Jones We had heavy weight gang issues in the mid 80s, when it was at its heaviest. We was running from the police ...

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.

That’s a graffiti handle that would have been familiar in Chicago in the late 1990s and ... letters that measure about 10 feet high and 80 feet wide. Berry’s graffiti name is surrounded ...

With 80 arrests in the last four weeks, including that of ”public enemy No. 1 in the graffiti world,” the Chicago Police Department`s public transportation unit says it has successfully ...

See About archive blog posts. Song lyrics, lovelorn notes and math problems appear on the walls of the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library, all graffiti left there by students.

A man and woman watched as workers in gloves wiped and buffed The Bean clean of graffiti — silvery white ... iconic part of who we are as Chicago from the time that park opened and The Bean ...