
A Jewish community center in the Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood was evacuated on Monday after a bomb threat. The FBI is investigating the bomb threats.
The Hyde Park JCC at 5200-block of the South Hyde Park Boulevard received a phone call on Monday morning indicating a bomb threat. Following the protocol, the center was evacuated and the Chicago police arrived to investigate. Police gave the all-clear shortly before the noon.
11 Jewish community centers received called-in bomb threats on Monday, all of which were eventually determined to be in hoaxes, according to The JCC Association of North America.
The FBI and also the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are investigating the bomb threats in Chicago and all across the country.
As daycare let out on Monday evening, word of the bomb threat had parents shaking their heads.
A total of 54 Jewish Community Centers in the U.S. have received the bomb threats, sometimes multiple threats, since beginning of the January. The JCC in the northwest suburban Lake Zurich was targeted in the last month.
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Ryan Lenz of the Southern Poverty Law Center said that, "no doubt about it, we live in a time where the intensity of the radical right and racists and hate groups across the country is growing."
The president bristled in the last week when asked about the threats to Jewish centers.
"Not a simple question. Not a fair question. OK, sit down,"Trump told to the reporter.
The White House press secretary Sean Spicer responded to the nationwide threats saying that, "Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individuals freedom. The President has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable."
By Mrudula Duddempudi.