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Twitter User Captures Thick Black Smoke Pouring From Downtown High Rise

Thick black smoke poured from the windows of a residential high rise Friday afternoon as a fire burned in one of its units on the city’s Near North Side.

The fire could be seen about 3:11 p.m. in the 500 block of North Dearborn Street.

“Oh my god,” Twitter user Mallory Busch said. “Fire up high in a residential building.”

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Video shared on social media showed the black smoke billowing toward the sky and flames licking from the high-rise windows.

No other information was available.

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