Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois, the largest in the Midwest, and, with a population of nearly 3 million people, is the third-most populous city in the United States.

Founded in 1833 at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, it soon became a transportation hub in North America and quickly became the business and financial capital of the Midwest.

Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), operator of mass transit, is the second largest transit system in the US. It offers bus and rapid transit routes throughout the city, covers city limits and forty surrounding suburbs.
	The CTA’s 1,190 train cars operate over eight routes and 222 miles of track.Its trains provide about 650,000 customer trips each day and serve 144 stations in Chicago. The system is the second largest in the US. Only NY´s MTA is more extensive.
Old-School-King Zore, Knomadz, SB hooked it up, the spot: the famous Walls Of Style at Little Village, a hood around Kedzie and 30th, near Albany.

	Chicago Hip-Hop is very specific and vibrant…. Chicago-Blues. Though the city is buffing and keeps on criminalising Graffiti, writers are hardcore and buisy. The past MOS have shown the strength of the scene; strong words, minds, skills and styles.
The local orga started the week-end of true Hip-Hop- and Graffiti-Flavour with an Art-Show at a Gallery downtown, introducing some of the most up Graf-Artists, such as Hyde or Zore, Demon and many more.
	Saturday was sunny so writers were ready to catch walls and vibes even before high-noon. DJ MP and friends were spinning turntables, Graf-Artists from all around Chicago, state and further creating, while rappers rocked the spot.
Sunday was the day to finish artworks and to hang out, while the weekend traditionally is closed with an After-Partyat a club where the Knomadz present the Real Underground featuring Ang13, Dr. Who, Blunt Crew and many more.

In Chitown Crews are prioritized, as a group can usually pull off more than an individual. First contact, proven skills, first served: we ask that you send several pictures of your artwork. These will be measured against other flicks, and weighed first on a crew basis.

	If you are alone, or your crew is not dependable enough, we recommend you link with other individuals that you want to paint with to make a crew for a day. Once the meetings begin, it is again first come first served.
Those crews who arrive first receive priority. We automatically reserve a certain amount of space for out-of-towners, so that they are guaranteed for their travels.

Through the help of a lot of activists of all discplines the Chicago MOS has always been a special Meeting, with Art-Show, Graf-Jam and After-Party.

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Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al Capone or Scarface, was an Italian American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Capone began his career in Brooklyn before moving to Chicago and becoming the boss of the criminal organization known as the Chicago Outfit (although his business card reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer).By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the FBI following his being placed on the Chicago Crime Commission’s “public enemies” list. Although never successfully convicted of racketeering charges, Capone’s criminal career ended in 1931, when he was indicted and convicted by the federal government for income tax evasion.

The Chicago Outfit, also known as “The Outfit” is a “Crime Syndicate” that has a history beginning long before Prohibition. It is part of the United States phenomenon known as the Mafia. However, the Chicago Outfit is distinct from its cousins, the “Five Families” or La Cosa Nostra, of New York City.

The Outfit is the only criminal organization that has a monopoly on traditional organized crime in the city of Chicago, whereas the Five Families compete with each other for control of racketeering activities in New York. The Outfit’s control reportedly reaches throughout the central United States to places as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada and parts of Florida.

To this day, The Outfit bears the influence of its best-known leader, Al Capone; in fact, for several years after Capone left the scene, The Outfit was known as “the Capone Gang” or “the Capones.”