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Apr 16, 2008 12:08 pm US/Central

Bomb Threat Closes Lemont All-Girls' School

Mount Assisi Academy Expected To Reopen Thursday

LEMONT, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) ― A southwest suburban school was closed Wednesday after someone phoned in a bomb threat and said it would explode this morning.

A Cook County Sheriff's Dept. bomb squad was on the scene Wednesday morning at Mount Assisi Academy at 13860 Main St. in Lemont, an all-girls Catholic high school with about 325 students. .

"Someone indicated there was a bomb planted somewhere in the facility and said something to the effect that it would go off at about 8:30 this morning," said Bill Cunningham, spokesman for the sheriff's police.

Cunningham did not yet know the results of the search. Whoever phoned in the threat did not say where the alleged bomb was planted, he said.

Mount Assisi referred questions to the Archdiocese of Chicago. Susan Burritt, Archdiocese spokeswoman, said school was closed Wednesday and most likely will re-open Thursday.

"They felt just to make sure everything was safe and secure, and just out of a great deal of precaution, they did close the school," Burritt said.

She would not provide more details.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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