Fear is rampant, or maybe it's just a big joke, that Mayor Daley will sic his graffiti- busters on the street art, which adorns a wall on the side of an Indian restaurant in the west Loop, according to Maxwell Colette. But it'd be far wiser for Daley to cut it out and auction it off to the highest bidder. The city faces a half billion dollar shortfall in its 2010 budget.

According to Wikipedia, on April 27, 2007, Banksy's Space Girl & Bird fetched $576,000 at auction -- about 20 times more than expected. Oprah, where are you?



Editor's note: Maxwell Colette was previously misidentified as a blogger; we regret the error.