CHICAGO (CBS) — Some graffiti vandals have turned the wall of a coach-house into a canvas for their words and pictures.
The vandals left their graffiti on a 50-foot wall on a coach house near Clark Street and Chicago Avenue in the swanky Gold Coast early Monday.
The coach house in the 900 block of North Clark Street and its adjacent home have been under a multi-million dollar renovation for the past two years.
But at some point early Monday morning, vandals tore down a protective tarp and began spray-painting the brick wall, the Chicago Tribune reported. The vandals wrote what appears to read, “Mole Nine” in black and white bubble letters with what appears to be a dead body representing the “I” in nine, and two other monikers in smaller text – “hard 2 overcome” and “how 2 operate.”
The vandals even spray-painted the port-a-potty on the site.
The brick work will have to be sandblasted to restore its original color.
The house was built in the early 20th century as a ComEd substation, but two stories were later added to make it into a house, the Tribune reported. The coach house was built with the additions.
The homeowners say they will put in motion detectors and lights when the work is finished.
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