Seven people were charged after Chicago's iconic "Bean" installation in Millennium Park and the Cancer Survivors' Wall in Maggie Daley Park were both vandalized earlier this week.
Two of the suspects -- Tino Guzman and Rey Ortega, both 20 years old from Chicago -- were charged with felony criminal damage to government property and criminal trespass to state land, Chicago Police said.
An Illinois judge set bail at $10,000 Thursday for each of the two charged, whom officials said had no previous criminal history. The others are set to go before a judge later this month.
Five others, four from Chicago and one from Berkeley, were charged with criminal trespass to state land: Angel Diaz, 20; Robert Rickard, 20; Chasity Guzman, 21; and Guadalupe Carrillo, 20. A 17-year-old juvenile was charged with being in a public park after hours.
Authorities said the group parked on Lower Wacker Drive and then spray-painted city property in the 300 block of East Randolph Street, where Maggie Daley Park is located, at around 11:58 p.m. Monday night. The group tagged several areas of the park, including the Cancer Survivors' Wall, police said.
Minutes later, at around 12:07 a.m., the group moved to Millennium Park where they tagged the iconic "Cloud Gate" sculpture known as "The Bean," as well as benches and other areas of the park.
An off-duty security guard who was boarding a bus at the time spotted the group and alerted authorities, according to police, who took seven people, all described as adults, into custody.
Officers at the scene said the suspects arrested were "known taggers" who call themselves the "35th Street Crew." Several of the graffiti marks - including those on the "The Bean" - included "35th" in white spray paint, as well as the roman numerals for three and five, and the word "crew," among other symbols.
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City officials said crews removed the graffiti with a "mild detergent to clean the surface and the area was polished with a stainless steel polish." The removal process took a couple of hours to complete.
