The shooting happened about 9 p.m. in the 900 block of North Central Park Avenue, said Police News Affairs Officer Nicole Trainor, citing preliminary information.
A spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department said a man was taken in serious-to-critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital from the Central Park location.
Anthony Guglielmi, director of the Police Department's News Affairs division, said officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a residence where they found a group of adults. One of them, an adult male, held a "knife-like object in his hand," Guglielmi said.
The officers ordered him to drop it, but he didn't comply, Guglielmi said. The man then "engaged" the officers, he said.
One officer twice attempted to use a taser on the man, Guglielmi said, but the device's prongs didn't reach him. The officers again ordered the man to drop the object. When he did not, one of the officers fired at least one round, striking the man.
Guglielmi said a "box cutter-like" object was found at the scene. No officers were injured, he said.
The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the case, as it does with all police-involved shootings.
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