The Artistic Bombing Crew, better known as ABC, are a graffiti group from a neighborhood in Chicago called Logan Square and these artist originated in the mid 1980s. The group is known for tagging on property in the Logan Square and the rest of the North side Chicago area. They’re most famously known for their tagging on the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) trains. The graffiti on the trains were considered a million dollar problem according to the CTA chief administrative officer. In the 1980s, the police department made an intense effort to catch and arrest any tagger they would see in the Chicago area. It was so hard to catch these taggers because they did most of their work at night and they wore all black or even camouflage so the police would have a hard time seeing and catching the vandals. ABC has caught a number of headlines in newspapers. Here are some of the names of the articles ABC grased :
Chicago Sun-Times- “Yearly CTA Graffiti Tab is $1 Million (1985)
Chicago Tribune- “Writing’s on the Wall: CTA’s Graffiti Worsens” (1985)
Chicago Reader- Excerpt (1985)
Chicago Tribune- “Gangs play Graffiti Tag, CTA’s It!” (1985)
Spraycan Art (1987)
Chicago Suntimes- “Exhibit Tags Graffiti as Art” (1985)
Chicago Suntimes – “Tag it as Art, Graffiti Gang gets a Patron” (1989)
Chicago Reader- “Art Faces: Neo-Graffiti by Erik Debat, aka Risk” (1990
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