An activist who calls himself “pro-life Spider-Man” was arrested this week after a death-defying climb to the Accenture Tower in Chicago, which houses Israel’s Consulate General in the Midwest.
Stunned onlookers first noticed the climber, whose real name is Maison Des Champs, around 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
He scaled the nearly 600-foot building without a rope or safety equipment and was quickly arrested after reaching the top, police said.
An activist climber who calls himself “Pro-Life Spider-Man” scaled the nearly 600-foot Accenture Tower in Chicago, which houses the Consulate General of Israel in the Midwest. ABC
Chicago police and fire departments were sent to the scene and streets in the area were blocked for about an hour, according to ABC 7 Chicago.
Escalators and elevators were turned off as authorities, including members of the SWAT team, entered the building, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
The climber, whose real name is Maison Des Champs, has performed more than half a dozen similar stunts in cities across the United States to raise awareness for various causes.ABC
Tuesday’s stunt wasn’t the first time Des Champs imitated Marvel’s famous web-slinger. The anti-abortion activist has staged more than a half-dozen similar climbs across the country to raise awareness and money for the pro-life movement and other causes, usually by livestreaming his antics on his Instagram page.
In 2021, Des Champs was arrested after going up to the Aria hotel in Las Vegas, allegedly to protest COVID-19 restrictions. In May 2022, Des Champs was arrested in San Francisco after climbing the 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, the second tallest building in California.
Just two days later, he was at it again, scaling the 721-foot New York Times building on Eighth Avenue near West 40th Street to hang a pair of anti-abortion banners.
One of his most notable stunts came before this year’s Super Bowl in Phoenix, when he was arrested after scaling the empty 40-story building formerly known as Chase Tower.
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