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Our local paper reported:

A threat of explosions across Cook County highways and libraries caused the Oak Park Public Library to close Monday. Library officials promptly called the Oak Park Police Department after the threat was received at 7 p.m., Sunday night through the contact page on the OPPL website. A police report has been filed.

“There will be a big explosion all over Cook county’s highways and librarys including Chicago gurnee and oak park. It will explode sometime tomorrow 8/21/2023,” the threat reads.

Gurnee was not the only northern suburb to receive such a threat, but Oak Park appears to be the only western suburb at this time. Several libraries across the northern suburbs received similar threats on Aug. 17, including in Morton Grove, Park Ridge and Wilmette. No explosives were ever found or detonated, according to Dan Yopchick, spokesperson of the Village of Oak Park.

instead we get the heckler's veto on civic life and public goods

Not sure this is the best thread for it, but since we had some discussions about this upthread... another round of bomb threats against local libraries, including the one in my city:

https://www.wbez.org/stories/libraries-in-chicago-suburbs-receive-bomb-threats/96196768-b467-4e75-bf13-dda8eee99ba8

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 at about 3:50 p.m. but did not find any sign of a threat.