Man Burned at Hancock Center Restaurant: Cops

Chicago - A small fire that erupted at a popular restaurant in the Hancock building on the Magnificent Mile left a man who was cleaning hospitalized with burns, police said.

At 5:30 a.m. a man who was working suffered burns during a small fire at the Cheesecake Factory restaurant, 875 N. Michigan Ave. in the John Hancock Center, according to police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez.

The man apparently used a metal cleaning substance that came too close to an electrical outlet, causing the fire, Perez said citing preliminary reports.

The substance the man was cleaning with produced fumes that caught fire, and he was burned on his arms, according to Chicago Fire Department Media Affairs Chief Kevin MacGregor.

The man suffered second-degree burns and was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in “fair to serious” condition, MacGregor said.

MacGregor said the building did not catch fire.

Perez said the man also suffered burns on his legs.