{"id":752676,"date":"2026-04-25T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752676\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:07:17","slug":"endeavor-health-swedish-hospital-locked-down-on-reports-of-active-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752676\/","title":{"rendered":"Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital locked down on reports of active shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Side hospital was placed on lockdown\u00a0 Saturday morning amid reports of an active shooter who had wounded two police officers. The local alderman said a suspect had been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago police did not comment on the incident beyond calling the incident a \u201cpolice Involved shooting,\u201d adding that details would be released at a briefing. But officials with\u00a0Endeavor Health, who operate Endeavor Swedish Hospital, 5140 N. California Ave., confirmed a shooting and a lockdown. Outside the hospital, police vehicles lined the streets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">12:16 pm: Around 11:00am, there was a shooting at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital. The campus is currently closed while law enforcement leads their investigation. We are not aware of any active threat within the hospital and patients and team members at Swedish Hospital are safe<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Endeavor Health (@EndeavorHlth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndeavorHlth\/status\/2048088826732556695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAround 11:00am, there was a shooting at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital. The campus is currently closed while law enforcement leads their investigation,\u201d the post read. \u201cWe are not aware of any active threat within the hospital and patients and team members at Swedish Hospital are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Media staging for the Police Involved shooting is the corner of Oakdale and Mildred. Additional details to follow.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChicagoPolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ChicagoPolice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Ahern (@TAhern_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TAhern_\/status\/2048094739337994311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a community alert just before noon, Ald. Andre Vasquez, 40th, told residents to shelter in place and avoid the area, saying that around 11:30 a.m., an incident occurred with \u201cmultiple shots fired and two officers shot, one in critical condition.\u201d Nearly an hour later, the alderman released another statement saying\u00a0that Lincoln District police (20th) confirmed a suspect had been placed in custody.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Side hospital was placed on lockdown\u00a0 Saturday morning amid reports of an active shooter who had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":752677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[65570,960,5295,309727,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-752676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-active-shooter","tag-chicago","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-endeavor-health-swedish-hospital","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116466683011266541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}