7 Arrested for Allegedly Vandalizing Chicago's Famous 'Bean' Sculpture

Mar. 16, 2025

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Chicago police have arrested seven people for allegedly vandalizing the city’s iconic Millennium Park sculpture popularly known as “The Bean.”

On Monday night, authorities found the 110-ton Anish Kapoor sculpture defaced with silver lettering reading “35th Crew,”CBS, theChicago TribuneandUSA Todayreport.

Police also found benches and a memorial wall in the Cancer Survivors’s Garden at Maggie Daley Park vandalized.

A short time later, the suspects were located and taken into custody.

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The suspects’s identities have not been released. Charges are pending.

source: people.com