{
  "id": "2025-01-27-columbia-college-chicago-student-center-vehicle-property-theft",
  "slug": "columbia-college-chicago-student-center-vehicle-property-theft-2025-01-27",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia College Chicago",
    "shortName": "Columbia Chicago",
    "state": "IL",
    "type": "private-bachelors",
    "alertSystemName": "Campus Safety Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-01-27",
    "type": "theft",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "contained",
    "headline": "Property taken from a vehicle by the Student Center",
    "headlinePublic": "Property taken from a vehicle by the Student Center",
    "summary": "Campus Safety [issued a January 28 Crime Advisory after property was taken from a vehicle in the lot adjacent to the Student Center at 722 South Wabash](https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_january_28_2025.pdf).",
    "outcome": "Crime Advisory referencing CPD JJ-129409.",
    "endDate": "2025-01-28"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2025-01-28",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "January 28, 2025\n\nColumbia College Chicago Community:\n\nCrime Advisory\n\nThe Chicago Police Department is investigating an incident that occurred on January 27, 2025, between 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.\n\nUnknown persons entered a vehicle parked in the private parking lot adjacent to the Student Center at 722 South Wabash Avenue and took property. Anyone with additional information should contact Campus Security at 312-369-3220 and the Chicago Police Department Detectives at 312-746-8263 reference JJ-129409.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_january_28_2025.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Campus Safety Crime Advisory PDF",
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        "Advisory body transcribed from the PDF text layer. Standing safety-precaution chrome omitted.",
        "Incident January 27; notice January 28. Contact sentence is in the same paragraph as the theft sentence in the PDF. Distinct from 2025-01-23 running-vehicle taking."
      ],
      "characterCount": 506
    }
  ],
  "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).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Property taken from a vehicle by the Student Center."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Campus Safety Crime Advisory PDF",
      "url": "https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_january_28_2025.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-23",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN serialized behind burn-200 repair lane at capture 2026-08-23; archive.org save not yet issued for this URL"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-bachelors",
    "illinois",
    "theft",
    "timely-warning"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-23",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-23",
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}