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Aurora University offers $25,000 reward after threat
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AURORA, Ill. (AP) — The president of Aurora University in suburban Chicago says the school is offering a $25,000 reward after it evacuated campus due to a bomb threat. The university canceled classes and employees were sent home on Wednesday. A police sweep of the campus found nothing suspicious. University President Rebecca Sherrick said in a statement that the school intends 'to seek full redress for the costs and inconvenience incurred.' The university said it received three or four emails containing non-specific bomb threats. The president called the emailed threats 'an act of domestic terrorism.' The reward money is for information leading to the identification and apprehension of the person responsible. Aurora University is about 40 miles west of downtown Chicago. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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