A Central Illinois school district has removed the doors from restroom stalls, angering parents and students alike, is reporting. Some girls are reportedly bringing blankets from home so they can have privacy. Officials, however, insist it's necessary after someone wrote a note threatening a school shooting on a stall wall.
School officials in Beardstown have been taking several precautions after discovering the note. It remains unclear, as of this writing, what the note said, specifically, other than that it threatened a school shooting. According to Springfield's , those precautions include allowing entry into and exit from the high school through only one door and conducting random searches.
But it's the removal of doors from the bathroom stalls that has reportedly galled the students, especially the female ones, and their parents.
Student Juan Juarez said that some of his female classmates are coming up with clever solutions to the problem of lack of privacy.

A leak in a tractor-trailer carrying hazardous chemicals created a massive chemical spill and has sent 31 people to the hospital, authorities in Beach Park, Illinois, said Thursday morning.

A chemical spill in a small Illinois village north of Chicago on Thursday sent at least 31 people to hospitals and forced nearby residents to shut their windows and shelter in place, authorities said.

An Illinois couple is due in court on charges accusing them in the death of their 5-year-old son after a body believed to be his was found wrapped in plastic and buried in a shallow grave.

Officers on Wednesday removed several items from the home of an Illinois couple whose 5-year-old son has been missing for nearly a week, including a shovel, mattress, paper bags and a plastic storage tub.

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An Illinois couple charged with killing their 5-year-old son are due in court Thursday after the discover of a body. Andrew Freund Sr. and Joann Cunningham are each charged with first-degree murder, among other charges. Nikki Battiste reports.

The child was reported missing from his Crystal Lake, Illinois, home by his parents nearly a week ago

The body of AJ Freund, who was reported missing last week, was found covered in plastic and buried in the grave in Woodstock, Illinois, police said