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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Cindy Hernandez

Libraries in Chicago, suburbs receive bomb threats

Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center, located at 400 S. State St., received a bomb threat Tuesday by anonymous email. The bomb squad and a canine unit swept the building, but they didn’t find anything. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Libraries in Chicago and surrounding suburbs were closed Tuesday after receiving bomb threats.

An employee at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St., received an anonymous email saying that there was a bomb inside the building, Chicago police said. A bomb squad and canine units were sent to do a sweep of the building around 3:50 p.m. but did not find any sign of a threat.

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