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Fire at U of C Building Last Night

By Chuck Sudo in News on Oct 27, 2010 4:00PM

A fire broke out at the University of Chicago's Statistics and Mathematics building during the evening rush yesterday. No one was in the building at the time the fire broke out and firefighters had it contained early. The high winds in the area could have made the fire worse than it was.

Avi Schwab, who goes by the handle "froboy" on Flickr and took these stunning shots of U 0f C's counterprotest of Westboro Baptist Church last year, was on the scene last night, as well. Here are some of his photographs; the entire set is available here.