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SWAT team responds to home in West Beverly

Police responded around 11 a.m. Thursday to the 10100 block of South Washtenaw Avenue.

By Sun-Times Wire

A man was taken to a mental evaluation after barricading himself in a West Beverly home Thursday for more than six hours.

A police SWAT team responded around 10:15 a.m. for a man “acting erratically” in the 10100 block of South Washtenaw Avenue, Chicago police said police.

The man, 27, willingly left the home around 5:25 p.m. and was taken to Holy Cross Hospital for a mental evaluation, police said. No injuries were reported.

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