Police issue all clear at Northwestern’s Chicago campus after reports of shots fired

File photo of a Chicago Police Department squad car. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

An “active threat event” involving shots fired near Northwestern University’s Chicago campus Monday evening is “all clear,” according to university officials.

Northwestern University representatives told the Sun-Times the situation outside Wieboldt Hall at 340 E. Superior St. in the Gold Coast was “all clear.”