Erika Slife
@eslife.bsky.social
Senior content editor for breaking/emerging news at the Chicago Tribune.
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“Abolish ICE” gets early nod from Mayor Brandon Johnson in annual Chicago snowplow contest. A story of our times, by @aliceyin.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/26/a...
‘Abolish ICE’ gets early nod from Mayor Brandon Johnson in annual Chicago snowplow contest
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has an early favorite in the city’s name-a-snowplow contest. He’s has signaled his support for “Abolish ICE” on social media.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“Abolish ICE” gets early nod from Mayor Brandon Johnson in annual Chicago snowplow contest. A story of our times, by @aliceyin.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/26/a...
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well this story certainly made me cry
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
well this story certainly made me cry
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Pope Leo XIV’s historic rise forges special Vatican connections for Chicago. Really an exceptional read from @angieleventis.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/25/p...
Pope Leo XIV’s historic rise forges special Vatican connections for Chicago
Seven months into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s Chicago roots have helped frame both his spirituality and priorities.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Pope Leo XIV’s historic rise forges special Vatican connections for Chicago. Really an exceptional read from @angieleventis.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/25/p...
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Just a reminder that we saw this coming. As I wrote in early November: “It’s a sign, court observers say, that the conservative majority on the court appears split on how to handle the case. Otherwise, the justices would have acted already.”
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Supreme Court’s deliberate review of Donald Trump’s Illinois National Guard plan signals a cautious approach
President Donald Trump has depended on the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority to uphold his broad use of executive power. That hasn’t been the case for his plans to send the National …
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December 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Just a reminder that we saw this coming. As I wrote in early November: “It’s a sign, court observers say, that the conservative majority on the court appears split on how to handle the case. Otherwise, the justices would have acted already.”
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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it’s a special type of journalism innovation to get millions of people to watch a TV segment except it’s not on your network and you get no advertising dollars and everyone thinks you’re a joke.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
it’s a special type of journalism innovation to get millions of people to watch a TV segment except it’s not on your network and you get no advertising dollars and everyone thinks you’re a joke.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
The Streisand effect is underway.
December 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The Streisand effect is underway.
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The gift-giving mission was coined Operation Midway Bliss as a way to reclaim the name from the federal government’s Operation Midway Blitz, which wreaked havoc on the city’s immigrant community.
Operation Midway Bliss redefines blitz with gift drive for families affected by immigration enforcement
More than 100 children affected by immigration enforcement in the Chicago-area will be receiving gifts this holiday season as part of a community gift-giving effort.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The gift-giving mission was coined Operation Midway Bliss as a way to reclaim the name from the federal government’s Operation Midway Blitz, which wreaked havoc on the city’s immigrant community.
For six glorious hours, I watched first my Iowa Hawkeyes crush Nebraska, then my Chicago Bears best the Eagles in back-to-back football games. I’m exhilarated and bewildered. Marking this once-in-a-lifetime moment as a Hawkeye and Bears fan.
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
For six glorious hours, I watched first my Iowa Hawkeyes crush Nebraska, then my Chicago Bears best the Eagles in back-to-back football games. I’m exhilarated and bewildered. Marking this once-in-a-lifetime moment as a Hawkeye and Bears fan.
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
Díaz, a US citizen, told agents they could check his ID and Social Security card that he’s carried in his wallet since hearing about immigration raids in LA earlier this year. After about five minutes, he said an agent put the cards back in his wallet and threw it on the ground and walked away.
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Díaz, a US citizen, told agents they could check his ID and Social Security card that he’s carried in his wallet since hearing about immigration raids in LA earlier this year. After about five minutes, he said an agent put the cards back in his wallet and threw it on the ground and walked away.
A judge is scheduled to visit the controversial and secret ICE processing center in Broadview Thursday. Here's what it looked like in 2009.
A look inside the ICE processing center in Broadview
In 2009, the Chicago Tribune got a rare look inside the controversial building that now holds immigration detainees during Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz.”
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November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A judge is scheduled to visit the controversial and secret ICE processing center in Broadview Thursday. Here's what it looked like in 2009.
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
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Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
Just another day working as a journalist in Chicago under Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. Photo by @mandophotos.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just another day working as a journalist in Chicago under Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. Photo by @mandophotos.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com
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Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.
Story has been updated. The infant was exposed to pepper spray. Not tear gas.
"The man, the woman, and a few others conferred frantically to figure out who had a driver’s license before they got into a New Life Centers van to go to the hospital."
"The man, the woman, and a few others conferred frantically to figure out who had a driver’s license before they got into a New Life Centers van to go to the hospital."
An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government.
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
Little Village residents confront Bovino, border patrol agents Saturday
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Story has been updated. The infant was exposed to pepper spray. Not tear gas.
"The man, the woman, and a few others conferred frantically to figure out who had a driver’s license before they got into a New Life Centers van to go to the hospital."
"The man, the woman, and a few others conferred frantically to figure out who had a driver’s license before they got into a New Life Centers van to go to the hospital."
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Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village.
“They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
“They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village.
“They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
“They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government.
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
Little Village residents confront Bovino, border patrol agents Saturday
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government.
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
“If Donald Trump thinks that he could come in here and send his police force to hold us down, he’s wrong,” he said. “The whistles are everywhere … this is what we do. The best thing we do in Chicago is organize. So good luck.”
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Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“If Donald Trump thinks that he could come in here and send his police force to hold us down, he’s wrong,” he said. “The whistles are everywhere … this is what we do. The best thing we do in Chicago is organize. So good luck.”
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...