Illinois Jewish Center Is One Of Many Around U.S. To Receive Bomb Threat Tuesday
By Rachel Cromidas in News on Jan 31, 2017 10:29PM
Photo via Elaine Frank Apachi Day Camp
A north suburban Jewish community center was evacuated Tuesday morning after receiving a call about a bomb threat.
Similar scares have taken place today at over a dozen centers around the U.S., according to NBC. Authorities with bomb-sniffing dogs searched Lake Zurich's JCC, Elaine Frank Apachi Day Camp, and found nothing suspicious, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office. A bomb threat was called into the camp around 10:30 a.m.
Jewish Community Centers in Albany, New York, Woodbridge, Connecticut, Boulder, Colorado, La Jolla, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Worcester, Massachusetts, were also among those evacuated Tuesday due to similar threats.
Students at the Lake Zurich center were transported to a different site for school, and no one was injured or missing, according to WGN.