Oh, Chicago, you’ve done it again.
Just hours after the city installed cute “COVID-19 masks” on three Windy City landmarks, a couple of our town’s ubiquitous thieves jumped into action, according to Chicago police.
Thursday morning, workers installed Chicago flag-style “masks” on the Daley Center’s Picasso sculpture and two lion statues that have guarded the Art Institute’s front doors for over 100 years, CBS2 reported.
By midnight, one of the lions’ masks had been swiped.
A security guard for the art museum saw two men climbed the statue, cut off its mask, and steal the face covering shortly before 11 p.m., police said. They then jumped into a black four-door Chevy sedan that fled southbound on Michigan Avenue.
Police did not release any further descriptions of the thieves.