Man sets himself afire in suburban Illinois mall Associated Press Published November 23, 2001, 12:32 PM CST A man shouting "freedom and liberty for all" doused himself in a chemical and lit himself on fire this morning at a suburban Illinois shopping mall, witnesses said. Witnesses said the man, described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, was yelling as he leaned from a mezzanine railing and threw burning packages onto the CherryVale Mall’s center court. The fire was just outside the second-floor Marshall Field’s entrance. Two shoppers subdued him and extinguished the fire that consumed him. Security guards rounded up the burning packages and put them out. click for more... --
