Man arrested after allegedly setting fire to victim’s tent during argument on Far North Side

CHICAGO — A man is recovering in the hospital on Tuesday morning after officers say someone set fire to his tent during an argument on the city’s Far North Side early Tuesday morning.

According to police, the incident unfolded just before 12:30 a.m. after an argument broke out between two men in the 4500 block of North Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive in Uptown.

The victim, a 56-year-old man, told police that the fire started after he got into an argument with a 64-year-old man in the area…

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