Nazi symbol mowed into grass lot in Illinois village

ALHAMBRA, Ill. – Authorities in a Metro East community are investigating reports of a swastika appearing on a grassy lot.

Residents in Alhambra, Illinois, a tiny village of under 700 people in Madison County, said in off-camera discussions that they don’t want that kind of message or rhetoric coming of their town.

A spokesperson for the Madison County Sheriff's Department said investigators had no information to give out at this time.

FOX 2’s DroneFOX was deployed over the area where residents said the hate symbol was mowed into the grass. The remnants of the symbol are faintly visible.

“We don't want to see this kind of hate in our town,” one Alhambra resident said.

On Wednesday, the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the act and said the Am