Caroline Kubzansky
@ckubzansky.bsky.social
Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, ckubzansky@chicagotribune.com. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days
News: Police suspect a man arrested following a Monday night arson attack on the Blue Line is the same man who allegedly poured an unknown substance on City Hall over the weekend and lit it on fire, according to an arrest report obtained by the Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/18/w...
Person of interest questioned after woman set on fire on CTA train, police said
A person of interest was questioned Tuesday afternoon after a woman was set on fire Monday night on a Blue Line train, Chicago police said.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
News: Police suspect a man arrested following a Monday night arson attack on the Blue Line is the same man who allegedly poured an unknown substance on City Hall over the weekend and lit it on fire, according to an arrest report obtained by the Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/18/w...
Reposted by Caroline Kubzansky
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Reposted by Caroline Kubzansky
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.
Reposted by Caroline Kubzansky
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
News: Bodycam footage of a federal immigration arrest last month shows a Palatine cop helping agents handcuff a man — which we already knew — but the after-action reports and rest of the footage have a lot of interesting material in there. W/ Madeline Buckley www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/p...
Bodycam video, records shed light on Palatine police officer’s actions in federal immigration arrest
The video, released Tuesday in a Freedom of Information Act request, sheds new light on the controversial detention that unfolded last month.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
News: Bodycam footage of a federal immigration arrest last month shows a Palatine cop helping agents handcuff a man — which we already knew — but the after-action reports and rest of the footage have a lot of interesting material in there. W/ Madeline Buckley www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/p...
Hell hath no fury like two reporters and an editor fighting a clunky CMS an hour from print deadline
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Hell hath no fury like two reporters and an editor fighting a clunky CMS an hour from print deadline
Reposted by Caroline Kubzansky
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
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U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
Art I am thinking about: "Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George. About art, community, commitment to work, commitment to the people you love and how they can collide www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBY...
Finishing the Hat
YouTube video by Jake Gyllenhaal - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Art I am thinking about: "Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George. About art, community, commitment to work, commitment to the people you love and how they can collide www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBY...
At a veterans’ day event, Ald. Mike Rodriguez says people have been on 26th Street since 6 a.m. because “a certain member of the federal government promised to be in Little Village today.”
In Little Village, a small group has closed down 26th Street in front of the arch. About 12 hours after news that Bovino et al may be on their way out.
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
At a veterans’ day event, Ald. Mike Rodriguez says people have been on 26th Street since 6 a.m. because “a certain member of the federal government promised to be in Little Village today.”
In Little Village, a small group has closed down 26th Street in front of the arch. About 12 hours after news that Bovino et al may be on their way out.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In Little Village, a small group has closed down 26th Street in front of the arch. About 12 hours after news that Bovino et al may be on their way out.
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
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 3:30 AM
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
News: Police arrested a man with a gun Saturday in Little Village, a few hours after CBP agents said someone in a black Jeep had fired at them a block north. Police records list the Jeep the man was in as a possible match to the car federal agents described.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/s...
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Suspect charged in pointing gun at woman in Little Village following tumultuous Border Patrol raid
Chicago police arrested a man who allegedly aimed a gun at a woman in Little Village, the day federal immigration agents said that someone had shot at them.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
News: Police arrested a man with a gun Saturday in Little Village, a few hours after CBP agents said someone in a black Jeep had fired at them a block north. Police records list the Jeep the man was in as a possible match to the car federal agents described.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/s...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/s...
@colinbphoto.bsky.social caught federal immigration agents in an apparent photo shoot at the Bean this morning and I guess this happened:
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
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While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
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Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
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November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@colinbphoto.bsky.social caught federal immigration agents in an apparent photo shoot at the Bean this morning and I guess this happened:
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
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Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
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Ogden and 26th Street at 11:30 a.m. today. Federal authorities claimed someone shot at their agents in Little Village this morning. They spent the next several hours circling the neighborhood, deploying chemical crowd controls and arresting people.
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ogden and 26th Street at 11:30 a.m. today. Federal authorities claimed someone shot at their agents in Little Village this morning. They spent the next several hours circling the neighborhood, deploying chemical crowd controls and arresting people.
After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.
This was a no.
Present situation: Faith over Fear clergy are trying to deliver a letter to the processing center but are instead engaged in what looks like an intense negotiation with Broadview Chief of Police
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This was a no.
Present situation: Faith over Fear clergy are trying to deliver a letter to the processing center but are instead engaged in what looks like an intense negotiation with Broadview Chief of Police
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Present situation: Faith over Fear clergy are trying to deliver a letter to the processing center but are instead engaged in what looks like an intense negotiation with Broadview Chief of Police
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Broadview, 11:35 a.m.
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Broadview, 11:35 a.m.
Protestors are singing the Hebrew song Lo Yisa Goy, which roughly translates to “nation shall not lift up sword against nation” and is a song I grew up on
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Protestors are singing the Hebrew song Lo Yisa Goy, which roughly translates to “nation shall not lift up sword against nation” and is a song I grew up on
BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
Reposted by Caroline Kubzansky
NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
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‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
His face uncovered and wearing dress clothes in place of his military fatigues, CBP agent Paul Delgado strode to the front of a federal courtroom Wednesday morning to testify about the minutes preceding the arrest of a Lakeview comedy club manager. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
Immigration agents testify in hearing on arrest of Laugh Factory manager
Federal judge finds government met burden to charge Laugh Factory manager after agents make rare appearance in court.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
His face uncovered and wearing dress clothes in place of his military fatigues, CBP agent Paul Delgado strode to the front of a federal courtroom Wednesday morning to testify about the minutes preceding the arrest of a Lakeview comedy club manager. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
911 calls in Little Village, an epicenter of "Operation Midway Blitz," have dropped like a rock. Neighborhood crime is way down but fear of federal agents is way up. Reported by @samjcharles.bsky.social, @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and Rebecca Johnson
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...
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Operation Midway Blitz linked to dip in 911 calls, especially in Little Village
The rate of 911 calls made in Chicago has dropped precipitously in the two months since the start of Operation Midway Blitz, a Tribune review of city data found, and nowhere is the decrease more pr…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
911 calls in Little Village, an epicenter of "Operation Midway Blitz," have dropped like a rock. Neighborhood crime is way down but fear of federal agents is way up. Reported by @samjcharles.bsky.social, @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and Rebecca Johnson
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...
In fact I have had it up to here with your west country talk and I do think it is going to rain today www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas2...
New Britain
YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic
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November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In fact I have had it up to here with your west country talk and I do think it is going to rain today www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas2...