A Bomb?

Not really:

• A Chicago alderman says someone set off a bomb outside his home early Saturday, shattering a window as his three children were sleeping. But police dispatch records show CPD was not sent to any calls of an explosion at the time of the blast and an initial police investigation later on Saturday morning found the object appeared to be a firework.

  Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez (25th Ward) says the blast happened around 12:45 a.m. near his home in the 1900 block of West 21st Street. He posted a video Saturday evening that appears to show a large firework detonating at a street corner. Glass is heard shattering, and a vehicle horn is triggered by the explosion.

It was a firework. 

A BIG firework with the potential to maim, burn or kill, but still a firework. Lopez and his press people are screeching about a bomb though and someone is pushing the nine-hour response time as something unusual - which it would be....for an actual bomb.

One of those "Police District Councilors" is calling it political violence before any investigation has even been begun, so leap to your own conclusions.

But it wasn't a "bomb."