Eric Tendian
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Relentlessly curious. Site Reliability Engineer by day, #ChicagoScanner by night. Built @CrimeIsDown . Nothing is impossible.
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New followers, I tweet about:
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#Chicago
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#ChicagoScanner
- aviation
- tech
- anything I'm curious about
To listen to police scanners & read transcripts, visit
To get breaking news for the Chicagoland area, follow my list:
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Suspicious package at 247 S State. Street and pedestrian traffic now blocked off.
#ChicagoScanner
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#BREAKING
: Chicago Police Officer shot and critically wounded during a foot chase near 53rd/Spaulding in Gage Park.
Police radio traffic in the moments leading up to the shooting:
#ChicagoScanner
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Confirmed meth lab. Level I Hazmat, 320 W Illinois, now secured on the orders of 2-2-1.
#ChicagoScanner
"Office, at this time, update from 2-2-1:
We had nine people evacuated. There is no requirement for human services.
What was tested came back as a narcotic lab.
2-2-1 is
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When you try to get to Lower Lower Wacker:
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EXCLUSIVE: I've compiled scanner audio from this morning's mass shooting on the CTA Blue Line, in which 4 people were killed. The first part is when CTA initially discovered the bodies, the second part is Forest Park FD dispatch (Westcom), and the third part is CPD taking the
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10:13am - Modelo Beer delivery truck stolen from 1655 E 95th St (Jewel), last seen going westbound. Police helicopter requested.
#ChicagoScanner
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New followers, I tweet about:
- Chicago
-
#ChicagoScanner
- technology
- startups
- education
- urban issues
- anything I'm curious about
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For those asking for pics of Lower Wacker, I don't have any, but these pics from reddit () shows the river's water level compared to the riverwalk, just imagine that line extending to any street at that level - not good
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Meanwhile, POTUS just arrived at O'Hare. My first ever picture of Air Force One, actually.
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Relevant re:
#PlannedParenthood
shooting -
@onthemedia
's Breaking News Consumer's Handbook, Active Shooter Edition
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"Battery in progress, girlfriend and boyfriend fighting. Girlfriend states she just found out her brother was dating her boyfriend. ...Her brother was dating her boyfriend?"
#ShitOEMCSays
"Give the number to Jerry Springer and call it a day."
#ShitCPDSays
#ChicagoScanner
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While trying to see if anyone has posted footage from the ending of this pursuit, I found this:
"Only on 79" was the caption.
#chicago
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UIC Police officer in response to hearing the Maxwell St Polish stands are still open:
"10-4, that's probably the worst idea I heard in a long time."
#ChicagoScanner
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#Breaking
: CPD officers while on a premise check of Wrigley Field just before 3pm may have found some "possibly explosive material" at 1101 W Waveland (American Airlines Conference Center), now a Level I Hazmat while CPD Bomb Squad investigates.
#ChicagoScanner
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From the HBT at 1140 N Wells, where a pursuit ended and 4 occupants of a stolen car fled into a hi-rise, leaving two AK-47s behind. Two in custody now per
#ChicagoScanner
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Two women from New York were riding their Divvy bikes on the Kennedy, they had no idea they couldn't ride their bikes on the expressway, CPD escorted them off.
#ChicagoScanner
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#BREAKING
: CTA Red Line train comes uncoupled between the Wilson and Sheridan stations with ~300 people on board, just before 3pm. One person on CTA radio alleges "someone tampered with the knuckle" and requests a photo taken immediately.
#ChicagoScanner
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The fireworks as a backdrop to this are something else
#chicago
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Maple & Ash ($$$$), 8 W Maple - A report of 3 unconscious females, possible overdose victims, CFD and CPD arriving on scene now.
#ChicagoScanner
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5:41pm - 31 year old man shot and killed in the alley behind 2003 W Howard, in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
Video from the scene: (caution graphic)
#ChicagoScanner
#Chicago
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5 people, including male and female juveniles, were taken into custody this evening in the West Loop after they led Illinois State Police on a 20 minute pursuit in a stolen Chrysler 300. The offenders were seen fleeing the vehicle with numerous backpacks/duffel bags.
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"All sworn and uniformed civilian members are required to: [...] if attired in uniform or casual dress, wear the prescribed star, name tag, unit designator, and rank insignia on their outer-most garment and in view to the public."
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#BREAKING
: Based on preliminary info, this mass shooting at a funeral home at 79th/Carpenter is now likely to surpass the 2013 mass shooting in Cornell Square Park, in which 13 were wounded. Possibly up to 16 people shot in this incident.
#ChicagoScanner
#Chicago
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How big is this elevator?
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"Can you let [hospital staff] know they're coming in with a 600 pound patient and he's got diarrhea."
#ShitOEMCSays
#ChicagoScanner
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Uh, I don't think you're going to find answers to that by listening to
#ChicagoScanner
Listening to the police scanner during Saturday's protests,
@NeilSteinberg
found no answers to the question that set everything in motion: How could a police officer kneel on a black man's neck for more than eight minutes until he was dead?
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I can see why he needs it
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CPD Zone 4 requesting additional officers to remove 50 fighting people from Millennium Park, they're going to shut the park down.
#ChicagoScanner
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If you see someone surfing at 57th St Beach wearing a black wetsuit and with a blue surfboard, he's already notified the Marine Unit of his presence.
#ChicagoScanner
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#Breaking
: 9 month old baby with a gunshot wound to the stomach brought into St. Anthony Hospital in Lawndale by a family member. The baby was shot yesterday in Cicero, at 1823 S 48th Ct, where the "mother of the child was killed while she was holding the baby and they apparently
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In bank robbery news:
Byline Bank at 5342 N Broadway was robbed just past 5:30pm, they put a tracker in the money bag of the [female] robber so she was arrested a few minutes later a few blocks away. Proceeds recovered, positive ID.
#ChicagoScanner
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20 in their 20s
Humbled. Thank you.
Profile:
(Photo by John Boehm & Stephen Serio)
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Timelapse of the afternoon storms from 4:30-7:30pm, from Edgewater in Chicago. View looking north-northwest.
#ilwx
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Wells St bridge over the Chicago River, a young male is on the bridge urinating onto passengers on Chicago's Classic Lady. Marine Unit notified over Ch. 16.
#ChicagoScanner
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3 sixteen-year-old boys were shot at the intersection of Hollywood/Rockwell in the Arcadia Terrace neighborhood. One was shot in the shoulder, another was shot in the knee, and another was shot in the lower back. Shell casings littered the street. CFD transported the boys to area
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333 N Dearborn at Hotel Chicago: 2 people shot, after an off-duty PO from Michigan was showing his gun and it went off.
#ChicagoScanner
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AUDIO: Here's the police dispatch at 2:10am on Sunday to a person having a seizure at Midway Airport's Atlantic Aviation FBO, that later turned out to be
@JuiceWorlddd
.
#ChicagoScanner
#Juice_WRLD
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EXCLUSIVE: Transcribed audio of CPD Zone 4 radio from 4:15am this morning, in which a CPD officer was shot in the leg during a crash-and-grab of a Prada store. Dispatchers did not know about the officer shot until 7mins later.
LISTEN:
#ChicagoScanner
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Aerial view of the shots fired by the police incident on I-290 at Mannheim, offender shot was possibly wanted in the murder of a 7 year old.
#ChicagoScanner
#Chicago
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019: Female (25) shot in the left arm at Western/Bertea, txp to Swedish Hosp. Suspects fled in a Porsche which was chased by officers to 2324 W Giddings where it crashed, at Giddings Plaza in Lincoln Square. One suspect in custody.
#ChicagoScanner
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Got to celebrate my birthday from the air! (I was doing the flying along the Eisenhower)
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The time has come: All of Chicago's police radio zones are now fully encrypted. It is only possible to listen to
#ChicagoScanner
on a 30 minute delay.
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Dearborn and the Chicago River, a male with no clothes jumped off the bridge into the river.
#ChicagoScanner
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Chicago Police Dreadhead Cowboy
🤝
Positive Community Interaction
Chicago Police officer: "Help us keep the city safe, man."
The Dreadhead Cowboy: "No doubt."
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If so, he's going to have a rude awakening when it comes to our police helicopter situation
BREAKING: Former LAPD Chief Charlie Beck to meet with Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday per source. Lightfoot reportedly wants him to be interim police superintendent. Eddie Johnson expected to resign Thursday or Friday
@ABC7Chicago
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> DePaul students watched as a student went out to State Street with a can of ravioli attached to wheels.
> "He put it down,” one student explained. “He ran upstairs, I think, to go observe it. And the cops came.
🤦♂
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Video: Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk flying north along the Red Line, then the same route back south after turning around at the Bahá'í temple in Wilmette.
#Chicago
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The incredible performance of dispatchers today (and every day) on
#ChicagoScanner
is exactly why they should be considered first responders and not just any old call center worker
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Person shot outside of the Logan Square Blue Line station, adding to the list of shootings in/around CTA property over the past week. This was a drive by.
#ChicagoScanner
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For those just joining us, start here for what I shall deem the WILDEST
#Chicago
police chase of 2020:
@WindyCityWxMan
Saluti, please find the unroll here:
@EricTendian
: While there's a pursuit going on, the news: ISPERN, PH1 following a vehicle taken in a carjacking and… Have a good day. 🤖
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Caller says someone put an American flag on her flagpole. She doesn't know who did it, she wants the police.
#ChicagoScanner
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Essential workers might be exempt from the curfew but impossible to be exempt from a complete shutdown of public transit
#Chicago
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I suppose the boat lived up to its name
#ChicagoPolice
@CPDMarineUnit
monitoring
#shiptoshore
CH16 heard a call of distress from
#vessel
PIECE OF SH!T which was w/out power & drifting towards
#NorthleyIsland
Marine Officers located the
#boat
and were able to safely keep her off the shore & towed her into
#31stHarbor
.
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001:
Theft-in-progress, 180 N Wabash: A man walked into Panda Express, took an order that wasn't his, and now he's sitting down and eating it.
#ChicagoScanner
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Time for my one political tweet of the season:
This guy is an idiot
React after Mansion tax fails from
@ChicagosMayor
:
“There is ongoing debate on whether or not President Obama and myself, who was the better organizer? But I’ll leave that for another conversation”
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This is the Italian Air Force’s air demonstration team, the Frecce Tricolori. They did a flyover of Chicago before heading to the Milwaukee Air and Water Show.
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BREAKING: Mass chaos at Navy Pier after multiple people stabbed, crowd heard what sounded like gunshots and started a stampede.
#ChicagoScanner
#Chicago
#FourthofJuly
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Wasn’t able to tweet this earlier since I didn’t have signal, but right when the Mayor started speaking at the
#ChicagoAirAndWaterShow
, a dummy fell out of the Coast Guard helicopter 🤣
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Is this a parody account?
The City has issued a Request for Information for reliable and efficient forms of first responder technology to ensure immediate attention in emergency situations.
The use of acoustic gunshot detection technology from SoundThinking, Inc. will end on Sunday, September 22, 2024.
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West Side man charged in connection to 7yo girl’s shooting death over the holiday weekend.
#Breaking
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#SWAT
incident at Trump Tower, 401 N Wabash. Woman went into Trump Tower with a rifle and went up to the 27th floor, she says she's tired of being abused by her husband.
Expect a large police presence and traffic closures downtown from this incident.
#ChicagoScanner
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The McDonald’s drive thru today
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Someone used ketchup
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6363 N Milwaukee
A male causing a disturbance inside Superdawg
#Chicago
#ChicagoScanner
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#Breaking
: Chicago Police investigating at 2835 W Fitch after skeletal remains were found in a hidden room.
From talking to neighbors, two brothers lived at the address, and one was found dead last week inside the house. That brother had stated the other had gone to a retirement
2835 W Fitch:
what kind of crime scene do you have?
skeletal remains in a hidden room.
and what's this second RD# that you have here on your Event, something about 3 February?
that's for a different body that was found in the same house a week ago.
so there was a body that
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Zone 4: Citizen involved in an auto accident and is going to miss the Blackhawks game that starts at 7:30pm. He doesn't want his tickets to go to waste, so he wants to give them to a police officer that might be getting off soon.
#ChicagoScanner
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#Breaking
, 8:30pm: Pursuit from Fullerton/Kimball of shooting offenders ends in crash at Western/Berteau, 3 offenders in custody with a weapon recovered. Shots were fired at police during the pursuit.
Full pursuit audio, LISTEN:
#ChicagoScanner
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districts👏not👏precincts
BREAKING: R&B singer R. Kelly has arrived at a Chicago police precinct.
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A "suspicious object" led police to shut down part of State Street ... but it was just a can of Chef Boyardee on wheels.
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Sgt confirms this. They talked to security and have photo/video of student taking the toy outside and putting it in the street. School project.
#ChicagoScanner
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Delayed:
Two males, reported to be armed with rifles, taken into custody at 210 N Wells, who fled after abandoning a Dodge Durango on Lower Wacker. This vehicle was used in multiple carjackings, the latest just a few hours ago.
One more offender still at large.
#ChicagoScanner
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Audio: CPD units activated to respond to secure downtown. Probably not a drill.
#ChicagoScanner
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