{"id":1818951,"date":"2023-01-22T07:20:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1818951"},"modified":"2023-01-22T07:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T12:23:40","slug":"illinois-theater-cancels-conservative-event-due-to-violent-threats-from-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-theater-cancels-conservative-event-due-to-violent-threats-from-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Theater Cancels Conservative Event Due to Violent Threats From the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-theater-cancels-conservative-event-due-to-violent-threats-from-the-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1818951&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"speakable\">Theater in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/illinois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Des Plaines, Illinois<\/a> A conservative group was threatened with being attacked and it cancelled their event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A panel discussion was cancelled by The Des Plaines Theater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/reproductive-health\/sexual-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reforming sex education<\/a>Awake Illinois conservative activist group has set the February event as a date for early February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/illinois-high-school-librarian-promotes-controversial-graphic-novel-gender-queer-tik-tok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARIAN PROMOTES CONTROVERSIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL &#8216;GENDER QUEER&#8217; ON TIKTOK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Awake Illinois learned the Des Plaines Theater opted to halt the contract of the &#8216;Coalition For Kids&#8217; event originally scheduled for February 8, 2023,&#8221; In a press release, Awake Illinois stated. &#8220;Due to threats of physical violence directed at the venue and participants, this decision was made by Onesti Entertainment, which has no affiliation with our organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/640\/320\/Awake-Illinois-Coalition-for-Kids-promotional-image.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Promotional image for the planned Awake Illinois event &#039;Coalition For Kids&#039; at the Des Plaines Theater\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n Promotional image for Awake Illinois&#8217; planned event, &#8216;Coalition For Kids&#8217; at Des Plaines Theater<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Awake Illinois)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shannon Adcock is the founder and president, Awake Illinois. She spoke to Fox News Digital regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the group was criticized for making unspecified comments that provoked intense backlash. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/des-plaines-threatre-awake-illinois-coalition-for-kids-lgbtq\/12722623\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">local outlet ABC 7<\/a>. Fox News Digital has not been able to confirm the controversy&#8217;s nature, and Adcock claims that she does not know of any comments that were used as a basis for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/illinois-gov-pritzker-signs-sweeping-abortion-protections-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ILLINOIS GOV. PRITZKER SIGNS SWEEPING ABORTION PROTECTIONS INTO LAW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/640\/320\/Awake-Illinois-2-e1674319883864.jpeg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Members of education activism group Awake Illinois pose at event. Photo provided by Shannon Adcock, president and founder of Awake Illinois.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n Awake Illinois, an education activist group, poses at the event. Shannon Adcock, founder and president of Awake Illinois. Photo.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Awake Illinois)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I think they don&#8217;t like that we say, \u2018groomers,\u2019&#8221; Adcock speculated.<\/p>\n<p>Adcock claims that Des Plaines Theater management claimed they were sent a bullet by mail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/terror\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death threats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was really proud to be able to provide an opportunity for a forum for some positive, hopefully positive, or what I thought would be possible discussions,&#8221; Ron Onesti, theater operator, told ABC 7.<\/p>\n<p>Onesti said to the local outlet he didn&#8217;t know the politics of the event, until threats started rolling in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/640\/320\/Awake-Illinois-e1674319927202.jpeg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Members of education activism group Awake Illinois pose at event. Photo provided by Shannon Adcock, president and founder of Awake Illinois.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n Awake Illinois, an education activist group, poses at the event. Shannon Adcock, founder and president of Awake Illinois. Photo.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Awake Illinois)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&#038;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&#038;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not my role to have a stance with these issues. I&#8217;m merely the venue,&#8221; Onesti explained. &#8220;They said they were going to bring guns and show you what it&#8217;s really about. It just got really, really bad involving all kinds of things, bullets and dog feces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out the Des Plaines Theater to get more information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve actually had a flood of people offer other venues,&#8221; Adcock spoke to Fox News Digital. Awake Illinois intends to proceed with the event in another location.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Timothy Nerozzi is a journalist. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theater in Des Plaines, Illinois A conservative group was threatened with being attacked and it cancelled their event. A panel discussion was cancelled by The Des Plaines Theater reforming sex educationAwake Illinois conservative activist group has set the February event as a date for early February.\u00a0 ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARIAN PROMOTES CONTROVERSIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL &#8216;GENDER &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1818954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4548,4914,4864,6413,3691,3819,6334,4855,3947],"class_list":["post-1818951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-cancels","tag-conservative","tag-event","tag-illinois","tag-left","tag-report","tag-theater","tag-threats","tag-violent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1818954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}