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One indicted in Chicago arson.(Erica Graham accused of Chicago Public Library's fire accident)(Brief article)

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| August 01, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 1984 American Library Association. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A 21-year-old homeless woman was indicted July 13 on charges that she set fire to and damaged 100 books in the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender and African-American sections of the Chicago Public Library's John Merlo branch, located in the heavily gay Lakeview neighborhood, June 13.

Community activists had labeled the arson a hate crime, but Erica Graham told prosecutors she did not know the titles of the books she set on fire, and went to that section on the second floor because …

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