CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Graffiti is nothing new in a city like Chicago, but taggers seem to have gotten much more prolific, especially in the Jane Byrne Interchange construction zone.
It's a gritty, welcome to Chicago, you can't miss coming into the downtown area from north, south, and west. The prolific graffiti taggers making their mark on the concrete walls and brides of the Jane Bryne Interchange.
You see some of the graffiti, and wonder how’d they do that?
The Jane Byrne Interchange is the gateway connecting the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Dan Ryan expressways into downtown. The multimillion-dollar renovation of the interchange definitely remains a construction nightmare.
But it’s not just in the construction zone getting graffitied, but it is also happening all along the Eisenhower and parts of the Kennedy. Taggers come in the night, even as work is going on.
CBS 2 spoke with some who live near the interchange project.
“We look over the highway,” said Lyndsey Thorne.
"Our bedroom window looks right at it...it feels like it is every day."
“I am curious, actually, how it keeps happening, because there is construction all night long."
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At one point, someone sprayed their art, if you want to call it that, on the underside of the old post office at the start of the Eisenhower, leaving people to wonder how they did it.
“I’ve seen graffiti, but you know, it’s Chicago, so I just figured that that was just normal, to be completely honest,” said Bryant Martin III.
It is clear that there is easy access in the construction zone to get to the expressway, and the Illinois Department of Transportation said nightly, people are jumping barriers with spray cans and taking the risk.
IDOT said it will remove inflammatory and offensive graffiti as quickly as possible.
From the looks of things, non-offensive graffiti goes up and stays up for some time.