Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Chicago hotel where some Texas Democrats are staying | NYGazet

More than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday to prevent a quorum in the state House of Representatives to move forward on a bill that would set new congressional districts.

Some of the Texas Democrats who left the state in protest of a redistricting bill were temporarily evacuated Wednesday from their Chicago-area hotel after a bomb threat, according to police and lawmakers. The hotel is in St. Charles, Illinois, west o... [2371 chars]