The campus of St. Xavier University was like a well-guarded ghost town Monday, its classrooms empty, its dormitories shuttered and its every entrance patrolled by school security officers and Chicago police.
That quiet watchfulness spread to neighboring campuses as well, after threatening graffiti was found last week in a university residence hall.
Following St. Xavier’s lead, four schools adjacent to the South Side universityâ??Mother McAuley and Brother Rice High Schools, and Queen of Martyrs and Southwest Elementary Schoolsâ??closed for the day Monday.