Tyler LaRiviere / Sun-Times Share The Chicago Police Department, looking to expand its Special Weapons and Tactics team, has launched a new hiring process for cops to become SWAT officers ...

A downtown Chicago hospital was placed on lockdown for several hours and a SWAT team was deployed following a threat made against the hospital by phone, according to Chicago police. The threat ...

An hours-long SWAT standoff that followed a deadly shooting on Chicago's South Side ended without anyone in custody Wednesday ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Members of the Chicago police SWAT team responded to reports of a man barricaded in an apartment complex on the South Side early Tuesday morning. The man was barricaded in an ...

Chicago police have called a SWAT team to a West Garfield Park residence after a group of men tried to free another man who was being taken into custody, then fired shots at responding officers.

Terrorist incidents. Hostage situations. Dangerous suspects. The Chicago Police Department’s SWAT team responds to some of the city’s most volatile situations. Chicago, unlike most big cities ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A SWAT team was called to the scene Wednesday afternoon on Division Street on the Near North Side, but police left the scene after the information they received proved unfounded.

CHICAGO — Chicago is one of the few big cities without a police SWAT team that responds to emergencies around-the-clock. Now, WGN Investigates has reviewed a draft memo from CPD’s SWAT team ...

Five suspects were released early Tuesday after partygoers at a South Loop building who police believe the five attacked — drawing a SWAT team response — declined to press charges, police said.