Incidents in Chicago deportation blitz: 8 with car chases 19 with collisions 12 with forced entries 36 with tackling 16 with strikes 4 with kneeling on back/neck 5 with chokeholds 9 with spraying 18 with pepper balls 14 with tear gas 5 with stun grenades 4 with tasering www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Tear gas, car crashes, chokeholds: Risky tactics drive Trump’s #Chicago deportation blitz. Law enforcement experts say federal agents show a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-CPD Supt. Garry McCarthy sez. @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The #Trump team carries out its #deportation blitz in Democratic-led #Illinois in the name of fighting crime. But Republican-led states have higher murder and violent crime rates—and faster-growing populations of unauthorized #immigrants. @wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com www.wbez.org/immigration/...

PARALLEL UNIVERSE: The #Trump administration hones #propaganda techniques to build public support for its #deportation blitz in #Chicago. Don't miss this deconstruction by Nader Issa of the @chicago.suntimes.com. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

#Chicago-area firms that earned lucrative contracts backing #Trump’s #deportation push have also benefited from deals with the city. City Council member @ward33chicago.bsky.social is calling for a review. @schuba.bsky.social @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The 1920s “immigration reform” the VP cited tonight, in this reply to a south Asian woman, was devised by Anglo bigots to all but stop the historic wave of Eastern and Southern Europeans — Jews, Italians, Slavs, Greeks etc www.amazon.com/Guarded-Gate...

In another filing tonight in the case before Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago, plaintiffs' attorneys say depositions are set to begin Wednesday (Greg Bovino is among those to be deposed). But the feds are seeking an order that would make those depos "inaccessible to the public," they say.

#Chicago religious leaders have been hit w teargas, spray and pepper balls outside an #ICE holding facility. They say ICE is denying pastoral care to #immigrants inside. And they're slamming "Christian" support for #Trump's deportation blitz. @estheryjkang.bsky.social www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Video shows a school-based #police officer telling community volunteers they can't distribute #KnowYourRights flyers outside a mostly Latino high school near #Chicago. A sergeant is seen accusing the volunteers of “indoctrinating” students. @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Masked immigration agents erode trust and intimidate, says former No. 2 DEA boss: Masking is "all about intimidation.” A police chiefs association says it can create mistrust. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... by Frank Main and @chipmitchell1.bsky.social

President Donald Trump’s administration says federal agents in #deportation operations are wearing #masks to avoid #doxxing, but some #police chiefs and former top U.S. law enforcement officials are raising red flags, we report. @suntimes.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

A mother slams #Trump admin for making her daughter, slain by a drunk driver, the face of a Chicago #deportation blitz: "Katie wouldn't want to be associated with an operation in which kids witness their parents being taken into custody on their way to school." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/o...

Thousands of #NoKings marchers are making their way past #Trump Tower in downtown #Chicago. I grabbed this view from NBC5’s helicopter stream a few minutes ago.

Propelling a #deportation blitz in #Chicago, U.S. #BorderPatrol boss Gregory Bovino is using tactics similar to those that sparked lawsuits against him and other feds in #California. @schuba.bsky.social @sophiesherry.bsky.social @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

#Chicago’s public #housing agency has paid $22 million to companies tied to one of its board members, @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social‬⁩‬⁩ finds. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

🙏✍️👏 @chipmitchell1.bsky.social @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org 👏👏👏👏👏📻💡 🎤 📰 unedited interview transcript, full report, providing context, verified fact driven 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Federal prosecutors in Chicago moved early Wednesday to dismiss criminal charges against a Chicago couple found lawfully carrying loaded pistols last month outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. trib.al/BaJsEyS

The #Texas #Army #NationalGuard's 36th Infantry Division, now visiting #Chicago, has an award-winning concert band!

Congress has axed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. @wbez.org has lost $3 million we were set to get last week. Do you value our reporting? We need you to step up with a recurring donation, whatever you can afford. This urgent fundraiser ends tomorrow: donate.wbez.org

Body-cam video contradicts Trump admin claim a #Chicago woman drove toward #BorderPatrol officers before one shot her 5 times, her lawyer says. "Do something, bitch," the officer said before pulling over & opening fire, the lawyer says. @davidstruett.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

That time ICE admitted to detaining people based on how they looked and then tied to pretend the journalist had just taken it out of context, causing said journalist to release the whole interview: bsky.app/profile/chip...

Standing up to #ICE in the suburbs, the People’s Patrol puts its faith in resistance Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz. @chipmitchell1.bsky.social #Chicago #StopICE chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Chaos in Brighton Park. This is representative of the amount / direction of pepper and smoke sent into the neighborhood, in this case, for no reason I can discern other than because they were leaving. Feds had a clear path out in a different direction, and residents were vocal but not violent here.

The #Portland protests have turned rougher since a #Trump announcement last weekend that he planned to deploy the National Guard and since the arrival of right-wing counterprotesters, some of whom have been spotted observing the crowd from the #ICE building roof. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

#CPD has stripped #police powers from the sons of two former #Chicago top cops, Terry Hillard and Fred Waller, pending investigations into allegations they broke the law, @schuba.bsky.social of the @chicago.suntimes.com reports. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

A neighbor said she saw agents dragging residents, including children, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said. “It was heartbreaking,” she said. ⁦‪@Suntimes‬⁩ ⁦‪@WBEZ‬⁩ www.wbez.org/immigration/...

“We couldn't change our clothes, we couldn’t do our personal hygiene,” she told @wbez.org from #Honduras, where #ICE deported her. To use the toilet, “we had to come together, three or four women, to block the view.” @adrianacardmag.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Worst of the worst? All three families were detained in the #Chicago area over the weekend as part of #Trump's #deportation blitz, @laura_n_rod reports. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I’m glad ICE released Steve Held, who they grabbed last night in Broadview. Now, the government must stop trying to deport journalist Mario Guevara, the Atlanta journalist who ICE targeted in retaliation for his immigration coverage.

#ICE has made unlawful arrests during Trump’s #Chicago #deportation blitz, a new court filing alleges. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Seven women say officers of this #Illinois #prison sexually assaulted them in broom closets and other areas known to lack cameras, @wbez.org / @chicago.suntimes.com reports. The women say attempts to report the abuse were mostly ignored or led to retaliation. chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...

The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data. (Published May)

#NationalGuard troops and staff vary politically, their campaign donations show. They tilt Republican but, even during the #Trump era, many still back Democratic candidates, the @chicago.suntimes.com found. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The $90 million for #Chicago to settle 176 lawsuits tied to this corrupt former #police sergeant resembles a 2023 @wbez.org estimate of what the settlement tab would be. Adjusted for inflation, we were off by less than $3.5 million. www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

BREAKING: “We have no fear, kick #ICE out of here,” chant two dozen protesters at a hotel in west suburban Bloomingdale where some U.S. Homeland Security officers have stayed during a #Trump administration #immigration blitz in the #Chicago area.

Happening now: the City of Chicago and the Park District are moving in heavy equipment to remove unhoused people and their encampments at Legion Park.

ICYMI: The head of Cook County's long-troubled juvenile jail is rarely seen at the facility and lives in Michigan, according to property tax and voting records reviewed by @kellygarcia.bsky.social for @injusticewatch.org. www.injusticewatch.org/juvenile-cou...

shout out to @wbez.org and @chipmitchell1.bsky.social for the big analysis earlier this week showing the drops in violent crime -- I'm seeing that work cited in pieces like this in other outlets. having strong reporting on that that other outlets can cite helps get the context out more widely.

There's some really interesting debate on why 2016 spiked. One answer points heavily to the release of the Laquan McDonald video — here's a 2017 story by the same WBEZ reporter who wrote the above story, @chipmitchell1.bsky.social, on that: interactive.wbez.org/everyotherho...

Chicago sees fewest summer murders since 1965, even as Trump cites high crime. The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09... -- TIMELY analysis by @chipmitchell1.bsky.social

The deployment, and threats of the National Guard, come as a @wbez.org analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades — from @chipmitchell1.bsky.social

There are still way too many shootings and murders in Chicago, but by the numbers this was the safest summer in 60 years. Great analysis by @chipmitchell1.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

"Chicago sees fewest summer murders since 1965, even as Trump cites high crime" Excellent deep dive by local journalist @chipmitchell1.bsky.social of @wbez.org/ @chicago.suntimes.com about Chicago's crime rate. Highly recommend for everyone esp press, pundits. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

I don't do this often, but I am begging you to read and share this article by @chipmitchell1.bsky.social on the state of Chicago crime. www.wbez.org/news/2025/09...

BREAKING: As #Trump plans to send federal agents and #NationalGuard members to #Chicago in the name of fighting violent crime, @wbez.org finds the city had its fewest summer #murders since 1965 and violent crime has remained near its lowest point in decades. www.wbez.org/news/2025/09...