{"id":750152,"date":"2026-04-24T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/750152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:58:17","slug":"police-presence-near-jacksonville-middle-school-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/750152\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Presence Near Jacksonville Middle School | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE:<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WICS\/WRSP)\u2014 Illinois State Police and local law enforcement are continuing to respond to a barricaded subject believed to be armed, but alone, in a home in the 700 block of Park Street in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

ISP confirm is not a hostage situation. \u200b<\/p>\n

Jacksonville Middle school is closed for the day, and outside activities at an area college are cancelled. ISP ensure that the public is not at risk at this time. \u200b<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n

ORIGINAL:<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WICS\/WRSP)\u2014 Jacksonville School District 117 has cancelled classes for Jacksonville Middle School today due to an active crime scene near the school.<\/p>\n

District administrators have been told by police that the situation is dangerous. The other JSD 117 schools will hold classes as normal.<\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Police Department has confirmed a large presence in the area, but could not release anymore details about the situation at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WICS\/WRSP)\u2014 Illinois State Police and local law enforcement are continuing to respond to a barricaded…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":750153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,32676,3534,3188,723,7310,236917,308865,7207,5292,122106,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-750152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-crime-scene","tag-emergency","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-middle-school","tag-jsd-117","tag-police","tag-public-safety","tag-school-closure","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116460514631106633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}