CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say students were evacuated for nearly two hours from a Jewish grade school in Chicago after someone called in a bomb threat.
Police shut down several streets surrounding the Chicago Jewish Day School on the city’s north side after the threat was reported Tuesday morning.
Police say school staff decided to evacuate the students and staff members. Police dogs were used to search around the school, but police didn’t immediately say whether anything was found before students were allowed to return. The school’s website says it has more than 200 students from junior kindergarten to eighth grade.
The Chicago threat comes as the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and several Jewish community centers across the country reported a new round of bomb threats Tuesday.
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