Gunshots reported at Dearborn and Van Buren intersection, Chicago IL

Weapons

Reported: 09/02/2025 03:10 PM (PDT)

W Van Buren St & S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60604

Police responded to gunshots reported near Dearborn and Van Buren in Chicago. Officers searched the area for a male suspect with a silver gun wearing a gray hoodie but found no one matching the description. The incident was later dismissed as unfounded.

Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 04

03:8

Transcript:

00:00

7530180. Can I get the description? For the shots fired, it was a male in his mid-20s or 30s. We're in a gray hoodie, dark-colored pants with a silver gun. 182 boy.

00:24

Please get a call back. Check the main entrance on King Drive and the lakeside building and we don't see anybody. Okay, we'll try it. One time. One time. Yeah, you can show me responding to 13-shap[1].

00:44

1822. 1822. North and Kingsbury, we're good. North and Kingsbury, 10.4. 1834. 34 Disturbance, 19, East Ohio, for four to five people behind the building with a full camp set up doing drugs, and then a recovered stolen auto at 153 East Erie.

01:14

SiriusXM is pinging a stolen vehicle. It keeps hitting all over 18. This is the last location for it. 34104.

01:28

133.

01:29

133.

01:30

133. 133. 133.

01:31

133, actually, disregard.

01:33

Sergeant in 1, there was an auto accident near South Wabash.

01:37

They went to the station. They went to the station. They're fine. 120, we're going to code that out.

01:39

99. And when I have you on the line, do you show me going to 39 in Pershing to get gas? I'm EVE.

01:48

Getting gas, 10-4[2].

01:49

113.

01:50

113. 113.

01:51

You can give it a slowdown[3] over here, we got nobody over here matching.

01:56

All right, 113 is going to slowdown[3] on the shot fire, Dearborn and Van Buren.

01:59

No one's not seen matching that description.

02:01

Again, float down for Dearborn and Van Buren.

02:03

Nice. I'm not a complete disregard.

02:05

All right, now we're getting complete disregard for Deerborn and Van Buren.

02:09

If you're not on seeing complete disregard, Deerborn and Van Buren, 1.02, Sam, go.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

13-shap: Shots fired

[2]

10-4: Acknowledgement

[3]

slowdown: Reduce response/emergency

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W Van Buren St & S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60604

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