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City leaders push back after DHS takes credit in Chicago’s crime drop www.wbez.org/data/2025/11...
City leaders push back after DHS takes credit in Chicago’s crime drop
DHS claims their agents’ actions led to a “historic drop” in crime, but a WBEZ analysis contradicts that claim.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
City leaders push back after DHS takes credit in Chicago’s crime drop www.wbez.org/data/2025/11...
Two families, two responses to spiking Obamacare costs: ‘We can live only, maximum, 10 more years’ chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/...
Two families, two responses to spiking Obamacare costs: ‘We can live only, maximum, 10 more years’
As Affordable Care Act premiums are expected to rise, a single mom expects to become uninsured. Meanwhile, a couple in their 70s plan to keep their insurance but say they can only afford 10 more years...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Two families, two responses to spiking Obamacare costs: ‘We can live only, maximum, 10 more years’ chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/...
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The Trump administration’s deportation campaign in Chicago is expected to soon ramp down as U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and many of his fellow agents prepare to move on to another city.
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
www.wbez.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Trump administration’s deportation campaign in Chicago is expected to soon ramp down as U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and many of his fellow agents prepare to move on to another city.
Chicago Sun-Times column: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Chicago Sun-Times column: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
President Trump's claims about murder rates and illegal immigration fit red states more than blue states chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Trump's claims about murder rates and illegal immigration fit red states more than blue states
As federal immigration agents carry out the president's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Democrat-led Illinois — a "blue state" — a WBEZ and Sun-Times analysis shows other Republican-led "red states" have ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
President Trump's claims about murder rates and illegal immigration fit red states more than blue states chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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An ICE agent is facing DUI charges after his car hopped a curb and he drove into a tree line, according to bodycam footage and report obtained by the Sun-Times from Oak Brook police through Freedom of Information Act requests.
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ICE agent facing DUI in Oak Brook after driving into tree line: 'This doesn't look good'
Guillermo Diaz-Torres told police he couldn't account for the 90-minute period after his shift ended at the controversial ICE processing facility in Broadview and when the crash occurred, per the report obtained by the Sun-Times.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
An ICE agent is facing DUI charges after his car hopped a curb and he drove into a tree line, according to bodycam footage and report obtained by the Sun-Times from Oak Brook police through Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Federal judge enters broader order governing feds' use of force during immigration blitz chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal judge enters broader order governing feds' use of force during immigration blitz
The judge previously forbade federal agents from using tear gas or other “riot control” weapons against people who pose no immediate threat and without two warnings during the immigration campaign. Ho...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Federal judge enters broader order governing feds' use of force during immigration blitz chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening in communities across the nation’s third-largest city and its suburbs. Nick Cull, a professor at USC's communications a...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal judge issues temporary restraining order governing conditions at Broadview ICE facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal judge issues temporary restraining order governing conditions at Broadview ICE facility
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is requiring officials at the de facto detention center run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide detainees with sufficient hygiene and access to lawye...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Federal judge issues temporary restraining order governing conditions at Broadview ICE facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
In a precarious moment for the arts, Chicago’s cultural department could see funding decline www.wbez.org/city-hall/20...
In a precarious moment for the arts, Chicago’s cultural department could see funding decline
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget decreases the department by 15%. DCASE is under new leadership after the previous commissioner resigned.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In a precarious moment for the arts, Chicago’s cultural department could see funding decline www.wbez.org/city-hall/20...
Day care teacher detained by immigration agents on Northwest Side of Chicago, video shows chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Day care teacher detained by immigration agents on Northwest Side, video shows
Video purportedly showed two federal agents pulling the woman out of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center at 2550 W. Addison St. about 7 Wednesday morning.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Day care teacher detained by immigration agents on Northwest Side of Chicago, video shows chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Rep. 'Chuy' Garcia says health, family led to last-minute ballot switch: 'I followed the rules' chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...
Rep. 'Chuy' Garcia says health, family led to last-minute ballot switch: 'I followed the rules'
Garcia is defending his decision to help his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, collect petitions to take his place.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Rep. 'Chuy' Garcia says health, family led to last-minute ballot switch: 'I followed the rules' chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...
Chicago City Hall gift room highlights Mayor Johnson’s ‘hostility to oversight,’ inspector general says chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
City Hall gift room highlights Mayor Johnson’s ‘hostility to oversight,’ inspector general says
The room was built only after city Inspector General Deborah Witzburg was denied an unannounced inspection, underlining the Johnson administration’s lack of transparency, she says.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Chicago City Hall gift room highlights Mayor Johnson’s ‘hostility to oversight,’ inspector general says chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
Plaintiffs lawyers: Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino views protesters as 'violent rioters,' tells officers to ‘go hard’ against them chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Plaintiffs lawyers: Bovino views protesters as 'violent rioters,' tells officers to ‘go hard’ against them
The allegation came in a late-night court filing Monday as attorneys representing media organizations seek a preliminary injunction restricting the feds' use of force during "Operation Midway Blitz."
chicago.suntimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Plaintiffs lawyers: Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino views protesters as 'violent rioters,' tells officers to ‘go hard’ against them chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
U.S. Rep Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...
U.S. Rep Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff
Garcia, 69, has been a fixture in Chicago politics for four decades as an alderperson, Cook County commissioner, state senator and two-time mayoral candidate.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
U.S. Rep Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...
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Despite evidence to the contrary, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said, "There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained." trib.al/zhzGFGT
Noem suggests Chicago immigration blitz includes 5 other states, claims no U.S. citizens detained
Federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants across the Indiana border with commercial driver’s licenses, including some with Illinois commercial driver's licenses, Noem claimed.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Despite evidence to the contrary, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said, "There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained." trib.al/zhzGFGT
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Dozens of photographs of uniformed immigration agents shot by Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short. trib.al/XP5Wq9T
IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during the ongoing immigration “blitz.”
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October 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Dozens of photographs of uniformed immigration agents shot by Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short. trib.al/XP5Wq9T
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggests Chicago immigration blitz includes 5 other states, claims no U.S. citizens detained chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Noem suggests Chicago immigration blitz includes 5 other states, claims no U.S. citizens detained
Federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants across the Indiana border with commercial driver’s licenses, including some with Illinois commercial driver's licenses, Noem claimed.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggests Chicago immigration blitz includes 5 other states, claims no U.S. citizens detained chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Agents took the entire family into custody: Arnoldo Carrillo, 26, Arnoldo’s 53-year-old father, Rosario; Arnoldo’s 56-year-old mother, Martha; his 24-year-old sister, Sarai and their 14-year-old brother Eli.
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Siblings shaken after feds raid Gary home, arrest family — 'They punched me in the eye'
Agents took the entire family into custody: Arnoldo Carrillo, 26, Arnoldo’s 53-year-old father, Rosario; Arnoldo's 56-year-old mother, Martha; his 24-year-old sister, Sarai and their 14-year-old brother Eli.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Agents took the entire family into custody: Arnoldo Carrillo, 26, Arnoldo’s 53-year-old father, Rosario; Arnoldo’s 56-year-old mother, Martha; his 24-year-old sister, Sarai and their 14-year-old brother Eli.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be cut off Nov. 1 unless Congress acts. Here’s a list of food pantries across Chicago and the suburbs.
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Where to find Chicago-area food pantries if SNAP goes away during the shutdown
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be cut off Nov. 1 unless Congress acts. Here’s a list of food pantries across Chicago and the suburbs.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be cut off Nov. 1 unless Congress acts. Here’s a list of food pantries across Chicago and the suburbs.
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The request, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, comes four days after ICE agents fired tear gas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood as families and children walked to a Halloween parade.
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Gov. Pritzker asks Noem to pause ICE enforcement for Halloween: 'Please let children be children'
The request, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, comes four days after ICE agents fired tear gas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood as families and children walked to a Halloween parade.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The request, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, comes four days after ICE agents fired tear gas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood as families and children walked to a Halloween parade.
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Downstate Illinois jury finds ex-cop guilty of murdering Sonya Massey during fatal shooting in her home chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/1...
Downstate jury finds ex-cop guilty of murdering Sonya Massey during fatal shooting in her home
The second-degree murder conviction against former deputy sheriff Sean Grayson, who is white, carries a potential sentence of between four and 20 years.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Downstate Illinois jury finds ex-cop guilty of murdering Sonya Massey during fatal shooting in her home chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/1...
Feds charge Kat Abughazaleh, other political candidates in conspiracy indictment tied to Broadview ICE facility protests chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds charge Kat Abughazaleh, other political candidates in conspiracy indictment tied to Broadview protests
The indictment alleges that the six were among a group who surrounded a government vehicle near the Broadview ICE facility Sept. 26 and tried to stop a federal agent from going there and “discharging ...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Feds charge Kat Abughazaleh, other political candidates in conspiracy indictment tied to Broadview ICE facility protests chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol's Bovino agrees to return to court daily, as he and federal judge talk bodycams, tear gas, IDs chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol's Bovino agrees to return to court daily, as he and federal judge talk bodycams, tear gas, IDs
The top U.S. Border Patrol commander spent an hour on the stand Tuesday, responding to U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' concerns about how federal agents have handled themselves, people they’ve detaine...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Border Patrol's Bovino agrees to return to court daily, as he and federal judge talk bodycams, tear gas, IDs chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino is in federal court in Chicago. Follow Chicago Public Media live updates chicago.suntimes.com/live/10/28/2...
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino in courtroom, live updates
Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who has emerged as the public face of President Donald Trump's immigration blitz in Chicago, is in federal court Tuesday.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino is in federal court in Chicago. Follow Chicago Public Media live updates chicago.suntimes.com/live/10/28/2...