🎄Peter Nickeas 🎅🏻🦌🕯️☃️❄️🎁
@peternickeas.bsky.social
Chicago. Reporter now, @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. Focused on violence, and running to ground things related. Past: CNN, Chicago Tribune.
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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.
www.chicagotribune.com
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...
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"... a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car. A wave of a yellow-orange cloudy substance hits Veraza, 25, in the face. Herrera, 24, turned around to the backseat and saw their baby girl, Arinna Sofia, with her eyes screwed shut." #chicago
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.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"... a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car. A wave of a yellow-orange cloudy substance hits Veraza, 25, in the face. Herrera, 24, turned around to the backseat and saw their baby girl, Arinna Sofia, with her eyes screwed shut." #chicago
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A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
ICE arrests could hurt student test scores, study says — and not just for immigrants
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
A study of a large Florida school district found that the effects of immigration enforcement on students’ academic performance was concentrated in high-poverty schools. The test score declines also occurred for U.S. citizen students.
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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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
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.
www.chicagotribune.com
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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
"... a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car. A wave of a yellow-orange cloudy substance hits Veraza, 25, in the face. Herrera, 24, turned around to the backseat and saw their baby girl, Arinna Sofia, with her eyes screwed shut." #chicago
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.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"... a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car. A wave of a yellow-orange cloudy substance hits Veraza, 25, in the face. Herrera, 24, turned around to the backseat and saw their baby girl, Arinna Sofia, with her eyes screwed shut." #chicago
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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ICIRR posted this video on their IG of a man and a baby struggling after they’ve both been pepper sprayed by federal agents.
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
ICIRR posted this video on their IG of a man and a baby struggling after they’ve both been pepper sprayed by federal agents.
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Children & babies in Chicago and its suburbs are feeling the impacts of immigration enforcement. Children had to see a teacher dragged out by federal agents at Rayito de Sol daycare earlier this week. A baby was pepper sprayed today in Cicero, IL. School attendance is dropping in immigrant nhoods.
Attendance Drops At Chicago Schools In Communities With Increased Immigration Enforcement
In the four weeks since the start of Operation Midway Blitz, attendance at one school with a large immigrant population dropped by 4 percentage points — nearly three times the attendance drop citywide...
blockclubchicago.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Children & babies in Chicago and its suburbs are feeling the impacts of immigration enforcement. Children had to see a teacher dragged out by federal agents at Rayito de Sol daycare earlier this week. A baby was pepper sprayed today in Cicero, IL. School attendance is dropping in immigrant nhoods.
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www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c... "Near 26th and Ogden a woman sat in the passenger seat of a car, bouncing an infant girl. The girl was silent, her eyes damp and bloodshot. Next to the car, a man screamed and stripped off his shirt. The man and the baby had both been hit by pepper spray."
DHS reports shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol
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 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c... "Near 26th and Ogden a woman sat in the passenger seat of a car, bouncing an infant girl. The girl was silent, her eyes damp and bloodshot. Next to the car, a man screamed and stripped off his shirt. The man and the baby had both been hit by pepper spray."
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I don't know how to describe this feeling of ... just not realizing what everything looked like up close I guess. I don't know. There was people who, they'd die on TV, or in movies. But then you see it. And it's not a movie. It's just how things are. I don't know.
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I don't know how to describe this feeling of ... just not realizing what everything looked like up close I guess. I don't know. There was people who, they'd die on TV, or in movies. But then you see it. And it's not a movie. It's just how things are. I don't know.
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So even though I'd never go back to being six or seven years old, there's still something deeply soothing about a time in life where I just didn't know, or see, or consider, some of the things I've come to know/see/consider the last few years.
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
So even though I'd never go back to being six or seven years old, there's still something deeply soothing about a time in life where I just didn't know, or see, or consider, some of the things I've come to know/see/consider the last few years.
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There's just less mystery about how people interact with each other. I'm not less curious, it just seems beneath everything lurks this possibility of violence. It's always a potential consequence, a potential happening. Everywhere. Not that I see it around every corner or anything like that.
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
There's just less mystery about how people interact with each other. I'm not less curious, it just seems beneath everything lurks this possibility of violence. It's always a potential consequence, a potential happening. Everywhere. Not that I see it around every corner or anything like that.
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Something I've been having a difficult time articulating lately, and thinking about a lot, is that I wouldn't go back to my childhood for a minute given the chance. But something changed for me when I started covering murders, and being out in the world, and happening into violence as it happens.
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Something I've been having a difficult time articulating lately, and thinking about a lot, is that I wouldn't go back to my childhood for a minute given the chance. But something changed for me when I started covering murders, and being out in the world, and happening into violence as it happens.
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I think all the time about where the limits of language start to apply to reporting and communication. I have lately worried often that this story is past those limits.
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I think all the time about where the limits of language start to apply to reporting and communication. I have lately worried often that this story is past those limits.
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www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c... Our (nearly) final word on the day is here if you'd like to see. W/ @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social, @mandophotos.bsky.social, @briancassella.bsky.social.
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 10:54 PM
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c... Our (nearly) final word on the day is here if you'd like to see. W/ @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social, @mandophotos.bsky.social, @briancassella.bsky.social.
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Hey — for sake of clarity, I double checked later and it turned out that they had been pepper sprayed.
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hey — for sake of clarity, I double checked later and it turned out that they had been pepper sprayed.
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A CPD officer was hit by a car in the middle of all this. A baby girl got pepper sprayed. Multiple arrests by both CPD and the feds. Hundreds of people followed this convoy up Kostner to Roosevelt on foot, in cars and on scooters.
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A CPD officer was hit by a car in the middle of all this. A baby girl got pepper sprayed. Multiple arrests by both CPD and the feds. Hundreds of people followed this convoy up Kostner to Roosevelt on foot, in cars and on scooters.
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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.
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