Heather Cherone
@heathercherone.bsky.social
Senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
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How it started/How it is going
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
How it started/How it is going
Reposted by Heather Cherone
The Trump administration has asked an appeals court to immediately stay a sweeping order issued by a federal judge in Chicago last week that restricts immigration agents’ use of force against journalists, protesters and others.
DOJ Appeals Sweeping Order Restricting Immigration Agents’ Use of Force Around Chicago
“This overbroad and unworkable injunction has no basis in law, threatens the safety of federal officers, and violates the separation of powers,” DOJ attorneys wrote in their appeal.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The Trump administration has asked an appeals court to immediately stay a sweeping order issued by a federal judge in Chicago last week that restricts immigration agents’ use of force against journalists, protesters and others.
NEW: Two Chicago police officers who attacked members of the public and the staff of a Wrigleyville pizzeria after a Chicago Cubs game during a 2019 drunken brawl they started, will be suspended for one year each, according to documents obtained by @wttw.bsky.social.
2 CPD Officers Suspended for 1 Year Each After 2019 Drunken Wrigleyville Brawl, Records Show
City officials agreed to allow the two officers to serve suspensions of 365 days each, even though the agency charged with investigating police misconduct and the city's former top cop agreed they sho...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NEW: Two Chicago police officers who attacked members of the public and the staff of a Wrigleyville pizzeria after a Chicago Cubs game during a 2019 drunken brawl they started, will be suspended for one year each, according to documents obtained by @wttw.bsky.social.
Approved
Final City Council vote set for Friday
Chicago taxpayers have already paid $2.53 million to defend disgraced former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara and the other officers named in this lawsuit, which was filed more than seven years ago
Final City Council vote set for Friday
Chicago taxpayers have already paid $2.53 million to defend disgraced former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara and the other officers named in this lawsuit, which was filed more than seven years ago
Pay $17M to Man Who Spent 27 Years in Prison After Being Beaten Into Confessing to Murder by Disgraced Ex-Detective, City Lawyers Recommend
If approved, it would be the ninth lawsuit filed by Chicagoans who said they were the victims of former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara’s misconduct to be resolved, for a total cost of more ...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Approved
Final City Council vote set for Friday
Chicago taxpayers have already paid $2.53 million to defend disgraced former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara and the other officers named in this lawsuit, which was filed more than seven years ago
Final City Council vote set for Friday
Chicago taxpayers have already paid $2.53 million to defend disgraced former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara and the other officers named in this lawsuit, which was filed more than seven years ago
Approved
Final City Council vote set for Friday
Final City Council vote set for Friday
City Poised to Pay $500K to 2 Women Severely Injured During Police Chase That Killed 2
In all, 11 cases alleging Chicagoans were hit or killed during a police chase that violated department policy cost taxpayers more than $82.5 million to resolve between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, according to...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Approved
Final City Council vote set for Friday
Final City Council vote set for Friday
Reposted by Heather Cherone
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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This story now includes video, released by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, of the baby being exposed to chemical irritants fired by federal agents from their convoy into the car she was riding in with members of her family near 26th Street and Ogden Avenue in Cicero.
Federal officials accused someone of firing shots at agents conducting an aggressive immigration raid led by Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino through Little Village Saturday. No one was injured.
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
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Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
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Federal Agents Say They Were Shot at in Little Village; Chemical Agents Used to Disperse Crowd
No one was injured in the shooting reported by federal agents, according to a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This story now includes video, released by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, of the baby being exposed to chemical irritants fired by federal agents from their convoy into the car she was riding in with members of her family near 26th Street and Ogden Avenue in Cicero.
A Chicago legend, too.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A Chicago legend, too.
The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas
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.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas
Federal officials accused someone of firing shots at agents conducting an aggressive immigration raid led by Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino through Little Village Saturday. No one was injured.
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
Federal Agents Say They Were Shot at in Little Village; Chemical Agents Used to Disperse Crowd
No one was injured in the shooting reported by federal agents, according to a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Federal officials accused someone of firing shots at agents conducting an aggressive immigration raid led by Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino through Little Village Saturday. No one was injured.
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
“If they are using tear gas, they better be able to back it up,” U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said Oct. 28. “And if they can’t, then they will lose that as something they can use.”
Federal immigration agents have deployed gas in Little Village, on 26th between Komensky and Pulaski, per videos shared online after 11 am this morning.
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“If they are using tear gas, they better be able to back it up,” U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said Oct. 28. “And if they can’t, then they will lose that as something they can use.”
Reposted by Heather Cherone
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
Cook County property owners will have until Dec. 15 to pay the second installment of their 2024 property taxes, with bills headed to their mailboxes by Nov. 14, officials said.
The bills are nearly four months late. @wttw.bsky.social
The bills are nearly four months late. @wttw.bsky.social
Months Late, Second Installment of 2024 Cook County Property Tax Bills to be Due Dec. 15
Second installment property tax bills are typically released in early July and due in early August, but have been delayed for nearly four months by an overhaul of the county’s property tax system plag...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cook County property owners will have until Dec. 15 to pay the second installment of their 2024 property taxes, with bills headed to their mailboxes by Nov. 14, officials said.
The bills are nearly four months late. @wttw.bsky.social
The bills are nearly four months late. @wttw.bsky.social
Again, the Broadview ICE facility is in, wait for it, Broadview, Illinois
Not Chicago
Not Chicago
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Again, the Broadview ICE facility is in, wait for it, Broadview, Illinois
Not Chicago
Not Chicago
"And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
“Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are.”
— U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis
— U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis
FULL STORY: Finding that federal agents repeatedly used force that “shocks the conscience” and lied about their actions, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction designed to permanently rein in agents’ use of tear gas and pepper balls. @wttw.bsky.social
news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/f...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are.”
— U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis
— U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis
If approved by the Chicago City Council, it would be the ninth lawsuit filed by Chicagoans who said they were the victims of Guevara’s misconduct to be resolved, for a total cost of more than $112 million to Chicago taxpayers. @wttw.bsky.social
Pay $17M to Man Who Spent 27 Years in Prison After Being Beaten Into Confessing to Murder by Disgraced Ex-Detective, City Lawyers Recommend
If approved, it would be the ninth lawsuit filed by Chicagoans who said they were the victims of former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara’s misconduct to be resolved, for a total cost of more ...
news.wttw.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If approved by the Chicago City Council, it would be the ninth lawsuit filed by Chicagoans who said they were the victims of Guevara’s misconduct to be resolved, for a total cost of more than $112 million to Chicago taxpayers. @wttw.bsky.social
A Wall Street ratings agency sounded the alarm over Chicago’s finances on Thursday as the City Council continued weighing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion spending plan for 2026. @wttw.bsky.social
Wall Street Ratings Agency Sounds Alarm About Chicago’s Finances
&P, one of a handful of major ratings agencies, revised its rating outlook for Chicago from stable to negative. Mayor Brandon Johnson defended his spending plan proposal as a “structurally sound budge...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A Wall Street ratings agency sounded the alarm over Chicago’s finances on Thursday as the City Council continued weighing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion spending plan for 2026. @wttw.bsky.social
About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
Tune in to Newshour on @pbsnews.org at 6 p.m.
(after watching Chicago Tonight at 5:30 p.m., of course) on @wttw.bsky.social to watch me break down today's dramatic hearing with @amnanawaz.bsky.social
(after watching Chicago Tonight at 5:30 p.m., of course) on @wttw.bsky.social to watch me break down today's dramatic hearing with @amnanawaz.bsky.social
FULL STORY: Finding that federal agents repeatedly used force that “shocks the conscience” and lied about their actions, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction designed to permanently rein in agents’ use of tear gas and pepper balls. @wttw.bsky.social
news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/f...
news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/f...
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Tune in to Newshour on @pbsnews.org at 6 p.m.
(after watching Chicago Tonight at 5:30 p.m., of course) on @wttw.bsky.social to watch me break down today's dramatic hearing with @amnanawaz.bsky.social
(after watching Chicago Tonight at 5:30 p.m., of course) on @wttw.bsky.social to watch me break down today's dramatic hearing with @amnanawaz.bsky.social
FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday. @wttw.bsky.social
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Admitted He Lied About Firing Tear Gas, Tackling Protester: Federal Judge
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis is the second federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois to find that federal agents have presented unreliable testimony about their actions and the action...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday. @wttw.bsky.social