Aldermen hold off on creating registry for murals after outcry over removal of Lakeview art mistaken for graffiti

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A proposal to create a registry of Chicago murals failed to advance Thursday, after aldermen agreed the plan designed to prevent graffiti-removal crews from wiping them out could backfire.

Artist J.C. Rivera paints a mural near the Paulina Brown Line stop. [Lakeview Chamber of Commerce/Facebook]

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