Police gave the all clear Tuesday after a suspicious package found outside Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital prompted the building to be locked down for a bomb threat investigation.
Officials closed the hospital around 5:30 p.m. and deployed a drone to survey the “suspicious package with wires protruding from it,” Evanston police said in a statement. The Cook County Bomb Squad was also on the scene.
The area around the hospital was reopened around 8:10 p.m. after the package was determined not to be a threat, police said.
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