Chicago Police arrested two men Sunday and seized about 200marijuana plants from a Northwest Side home equipped with indoorgrowth lights and a ventilation system.
Acting on a tip, officers searched the three-story home in the4500 block of North Kasson in the Mayfair neighborhood.
Earlier, residents had reported smelling pot wafting from thebuilding, police said.
"The entire home was being used for it. Some was cut up and readyfor packaging," said Lt. Joseph Porebski, who estimated the pot'svalue at $1.1 million. Charges were pending.
About $1 million worth of marijuana plants were seized last monthfrom a Chicago Heights home. The biggest such bust in Illinois wasin 1992 when 3,000 plants were found in an Inverness home.
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