{"id":244763,"date":"2026-04-24T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244763\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:56:12","slug":"jacksonville-no-class-at-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244763\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville: No class at middle school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAND reports a standoff with a barricaded person is the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 8:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The incident which has led to the closure of Jacksonville Middle School Friday is reported as a standoff with a barricaded individual in a neighborhood behind the school. WAND Tee Vee reports it started around 1:30 a.m. and now involves the Illinois State Police SWAT team. People are advised to avoid the area, including Hoagland Blvd., Park St., and Daly Dr.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolcitynow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CAPITOL CITY NOW<\/a>) \u2013 Jacksonville Middle School has canceled class Friday because of what is described as an active crime scene nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Our news partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/news\/class-canceled-for-jacksonville-middle-school-due-to-crime-scene-near-the-school\/article_f6e3513d-2d6e-4244-9b97-9f1001794d0a.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAND<\/a> Tee Vee report police consider the matter dangerous, possibly extending into the school day.<\/p>\n<p>Only the middle school is affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAND reports a standoff with a barricaded person is the reason. Updated 8:40 a.m. The incident which has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-244763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}