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Article: City Council tags ban on sale of spray paint
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 21, 1992
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The City Council banned the retail sale of spray paint in Chicago
Wednesday to deprive graffiti vandals of their "weapons of terror"
and prepared to regulate outdoor pay phones in a crackdown on drug
dealers.
Frustration over the city's drug and gang epidemics boiled over
as aldermen yanked out of committee and passed a two-year-old spray
paint ban. It had been put on hold after paint executives agreed to
donate thousands of gallons of paint to the city to clean up
vandalized buildings.
Chicago, where 4 million cans of spray paint are sold each year
at an estimated cost of $12 million, is the only U.S. city to ban
retail sale of the product, according to David W. Lloyd, spokesman
for ...