{
  "id": "2025-08-15-columbia-college-chicago-travelodge-alley-second-fire",
  "slug": "columbia-college-chicago-travelodge-alley-second-fire-2025-08-15",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia College Chicago",
    "shortName": "Columbia Chicago",
    "state": "IL",
    "type": "private-bachelors",
    "alertSystemName": "Campus Safety Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-08-15",
    "type": "arson",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "contained",
    "headline": "Second bicycle trash-can fire in the Travelodge alley",
    "headlinePublic": "Second bicycle trash-can fire in the Travelodge alley",
    "summary": "Campus Safety [issued a Crime Advisory after a second bicycle trash-can fire in the alley adjacent to the Travelodge at 65 East Harrison Street, following an August 6 incident at the same place](https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_august_15_2025.pdf).",
    "outcome": "Crime Advisory issued the same morning referencing CPD RDs JJ-363953 and JJ-375640. Detective line is 312-746-7618."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2025-08-15",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "August 15, 2025\n\nColumbia College Chicago Community:\n\nCrime Advisory\n\nThe Chicago Police Department is investigating a second fire incident that occurred in the alley adjacent to the Travelodge, 65 East Harrison Street.\n\nThis morning at 8:00 a.m., an individual riding a bicycle set a trash can on fire next to the building. The previous incident occurred on August 6.\n\nAnyone with additional information should contact Campus Security at 312-369-3220 and the Chicago Police Department Detectives at 312-746-7618 referencing RD JJ-363953 and JJ-375640.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_august_15_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.",
        "Second fire at the same alley as 2025-08-06-columbia-college-chicago-travelodge-alley-trash-can-fire (nine days later; filed as its own incident because the product names a second fire). Detective line 312-746-7618 (not 7611)."
      ],
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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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  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Campus Safety Crime Advisory PDF",
      "url": "https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_august_15_2025.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-23",
      "archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260824031203/https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_august_15_2025.pdf",
      "archiveNotes": "SPN save-sync 2026-08-24; archive.org recovered from HTTP 523."
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  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-bachelors",
    "illinois",
    "arson",
    "timely-warning"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-23",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-23",
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}