Former Newspaper Building Set Ablaze
From Times Wire Reports
A fire broke out at the former Chicago Sun-Times building, which is being demolished to make way for Donald Trump’s glitzy 90-story condominium and hotel tower. No serious injuries were reported.
The blaze apparently started on the fifth floor after construction workers used torches to cut out pieces of the newspaper building’s interior, Fire Commissioner Cortez Trotter said.
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