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Reports of hostage situation unfolding in Chicago suburb

By Adam Frisk Shaw Media

Posted April 24, 2015 2:19 pm

Updated April 24, 2015 3:28 pm

1 min read

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An NBC helicopter was on the scene on Friday. NBC, screenshot

TORONTO – One person has been taken into custody at the scene of a suspected hostage-taking in Chicago on Friday.

Police were called to a home in a northwest Chicago suburb after reports of a man holding two people against their will shortly after 10 a.m., according to local media reports.

Chicago SWAT members on site at possible hostage situation in Dunning/Portage Park neighborhood pic.twitter.com/xVS08DwlRV
— Ravi Baichwal (@BaichwalABC7) April 24, 2015

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An armed male was reportedly holding two people hostage.

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Police put a man wearing handcuffs into the back of a police car shortly after 3 p.m. according to an ABC News reporter at the scene.

SWAT just put a guy in handcuffs on the back of a CPD squad car pic.twitter.com/fWv7P7Hzeu
— Ravi Baichwal (@BaichwalABC7) April 24, 2015

Now newly arrived detectives get in Chicago squad car it appears to talk to the person just detained pic.twitter.com/SCpRRsbL2M
— Ravi Baichwal (@BaichwalABC7) April 24, 2015

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