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Crime & Mayhem

Lakeview Trash Fires Trigger Police Warning

By
Alex Nitkin
April 28, 2016 3:58pm | Updated April 28, 2016 3:58pm
The green stickers designating certain garbage cans for yard waste date back to the Daley administration. The city no longer operates the program.
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DNAinfo/Howard A. Ludwig

LAKEVIEW — Trash cans were set on fire in six Lakeview alleyways early Monday morning, according to a police alert issued Thursday.

Between 4:28 a.m. and 5:28 a.m., police said, someone "ignited" garbage inside the cans, sometimes spreading the fire to nearby garages, in the following blocks:

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• The 2800 block of North Cambridge Avenue

• The 1100 block of West Oakdale Avenue

• The 2900 block of North Seminary Avenue

• The 700 block of West Oakdale Avenue

• The 1100 block of West Wolfram Street

• The 2700 block of North Racine Avenue

Anyone with information on the fires is encouraged to call the Arson Section of the Bureau of Detectives at 312-746-7618.

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