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  "id": "2025-02-18-columbia-college-chicago-harold-washington-library-lower-body-grab",
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    "state": "IL",
    "type": "private-bachelors",
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    "date": "2025-02-18",
    "type": "sexual-assault",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "contained",
    "headline": "Lower-body grab outside the Harold Washington Library",
    "headlinePublic": "Lower-body grab outside the Harold Washington Library",
    "summary": "Campus Safety [issued a Crime Advisory after an offender grabbed a person's lower body outside the Harold Washington Library](https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_february_18_2025.pdf).",
    "outcome": "Crime Advisory issued the same day referencing CPD JJ-153267."
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      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2025-02-18",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "February 18, 2025\n\nColumbia College Chicago Community:\n\nCrime Advisory\nThe Chicago Police Department is investigating an incident that occurred on February 18, at approximately 9:30 a.m., outside the Harold Washington Library on Van Buren Street near State Street.\n\nAn offender approached an individual walking on the public sidewalk and grabbed her lower body.\n\nAnyone with additional information should contact Campus Security at 312-369-3220 and the Chicago Police Department Detectives at 312-746-8261 reference JJ-153267.",
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  "context": "Columbia College Chicago posts Clery Crime Advisories as PDFs at [students.colum.edu/safety/campus-safety-alerts](https://students.colum.edu/safety/campus-safety-alerts).",
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  "confidence": "high",
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