{"id":12088,"date":"2025-08-06T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-faced-bomb-threat-police-say\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:02:08","slug":"texas-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-faced-bomb-threat-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-faced-bomb-threat-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats who fled to Illinois faced bomb threat, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The Texas Democrats staying in a Chicago suburb to protest a controversial redistricting map in their state said Wednesday that they are facing threats against their group.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Charles Police Department, which oversees the jurisdiction where they are staying, confirmed a potential bomb threat was made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning, a threat was made against the safety of the members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus. We are safe, we are secure, and we are undeterred. We are grateful for Governor [JB] Pritzker, local, and state law enforcement for their quick action to ensure our safety,\u201d caucus leadership said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Charles Police Department said the threat came in at about 7:15 a.m. Central time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSt. Charles Police Department responded to a report of a potential bomb threat at the Q-Center hotel and convention complex\u201d in St. Charles, the city\u2019s police department said in a statement, and local police and the Kane County Sheriff\u2019s Office bomb squad \u201cconducted a thorough search and no device was found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response to the threat, 400 people were immediately evacuated and the area was secured as bomb squad units conducted their investigation,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>The guests and staff were allowed to return after police gave clearance to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas statehouse Democrats are in Illinois after leaving their state en masse Sunday in an attempt to prevent a quorum in the Texas state Legislature \u2014 and thus stop a vote on a controversial Republican-drawn congressional map that would give as many as five more U.S. House seats to the GOP in the 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>The group postponed a planned press conference with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) after reports of the threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The Texas Democrats staying in a Chicago suburb to protest a controversial redistricting map in their state said Wednesday that they are facing threats against their group. The St. Charles Police Department, which oversees the jurisdiction where they are staying, confirmed a potential bomb threat was made. \u201cThis morning, a threat was made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}