{
  "id": "2025-08-06-columbia-college-chicago-travelodge-alley-trash-can-fire",
  "slug": "columbia-college-chicago-travelodge-alley-trash-can-fire-2025-08-06",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia College Chicago",
    "shortName": "Columbia Chicago",
    "state": "IL",
    "type": "private-bachelors",
    "alertSystemName": "Campus Safety Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-08-06",
    "type": "arson",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "contained",
    "headline": "Bicycle trash-can fire in the Travelodge alley",
    "headlinePublic": "Bicycle trash-can fire in the Travelodge alley",
    "summary": "Campus Safety [issued a Crime Advisory after an individual on a bicycle set a trash can on fire in the alley adjacent to the Travelodge at 65 East Harrison Street](https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_august_6_2025.pdf).",
    "outcome": "Crime Advisory issued the same morning referencing CPD RD JJ-363953. Detective line is 312-746-7611."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2025-08-06",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "August 6, 2025\n\nColumbia College Chicago Community:\n\nCrime Advisory\n\nThe Chicago Police Department is investigating an incident that occurred in the alley adjacent to the Travelodge, 65 East Harrison Street at approximately 8:40 a.m.\n\nAn individual riding a bicycle set a trash can on fire next to the building.\n\nAnyone with additional information should contact Campus Security at 312-369-3220 and the Chicago Police Department Detectives at 312-746-7611 referencing RD JJ-363953.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_august_6_2025.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Campus Safety Crime Advisory PDF",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent PDF fetch match 2026-08-23: 139130 bytes, sha256 3ec0b2f40b08f9e84b579a0f25f832df555947575ae12d1d346e3d82b825bbd1.",
        "Advisory body transcribed from the PDF text layer. Standing safety-precaution chrome omitted.",
        "Distinct from the August 15 second-fire product 2025-08-15-columbia-college-chicago-travelodge-alley-second-fire (same alley and MO, later date). Detective line 312-746-7611 (not 7618)."
      ],
      "characterCount": 481
    }
  ],
  "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_6_2025.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-23",
      "archiveUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260824030958/https://students.colum.edu/safety/pdf/46427901_august_6_2025.pdf",
      "archiveNotes": "SPN save-sync 2026-08-24; archive.org recovered from HTTP 523."
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-bachelors",
    "illinois",
    "arson",
    "timely-warning"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-23",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-23",
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}