If those who sent bomb-laden packages to Chicago from Yemen were trying to terrorize the Second City, they did not succeed.
The weekend after news broke that two parcels addressed to Chicago Jewish institutions had been intercepted en route and found to contain bombs, it was business as usual at the city’s synagogues and kosher restaurants, and at the Jewish Community Center in West Rogers Park, one of several heavily Jewish neighborhoods in Chicagoland.
There was no visible presence of Chicago police at area Jewish institutions, and families came and went casually, Orthodox children darting along the sidewalks with kids in Halloween costumes.
