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Arson suspected in fire at East Side auto shop: police

Someone used “an incendiary device” to damage six-to-eight vehicles about 3:05 a.m. in the parking lot of a shop in the 9900 block of South Avenue L, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Two people were hospitalized with life threatening injuries after a car crashed into a home July 27, 2022, in Crystal Lake. — Arson is suspected in a fire Nov. 10, 2020, at an auto shop in East Side.

Chicago police believe someone intentionally started a fire Tuesday at an auto shop in the East Side neighborhood.

Someone used “an incendiary device” to damage six-to-eight vehicles about 3:05 a.m. in the parking lot of a shop in the 9900 block of South Avenue L, according to Chicago police.

No one was injured and no one is in custody, police said.

Arson detectives are investigating the incident.

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