Swastikas, KKK Graffiti Found in Beverly: REPORTS

CHICAGO, IL -- Chicago 22nd District Police are investigating threatening racist graffiti found scrawled across garage doors in Beverly late Wednesday evening, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Police were called to a home in the 10300 block of South Claremont Avenue around 9:45 p.m. to investigate a report of swastikas and the letters “KKK,” including the Ku Klux Klan’s blood-dripping cross symbol, on a garage.

Also found was the word “n---er” written several times, with the phrase “I want them dead,” the Tribune said.

DNAInfo reported that symbols and phrases were found on several garage doors and church shed in an alley between Claremont and Oakley Avenue from 103rd to 106th streets. The phrase “suicide is cool” on a shed belonging to Beverly Covenant Church.

"Some people might not think this is a big deal, but it is a big deal," Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th) told DNAInfo.

The graffiti was painted over by Thursday morning. No arrests have been made and police are investigating.