In Chicago’s Little Village, locals are currently holding an evening rally and vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, two fathers killed by ICE just six days away from each other.

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What's the deal with the potential proposed transfer of ownership of Chicago's parking meter system to Stonepeak, a company profiting from Omni Air International ICE deportation flights? @djbyrnes1.bsky.social breaks down the latest. Finance committee meets again on Monday, July 13:

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Heavy ICE activity continued across Chicagoland over the July 4 weekend. Rapid responders reported at least 7 detainments (that we know of) yesterday alone. Outside the Will County courthouse in Joliet yesterday, onlookers also recorded an agent pushing one young observer to the ground, hard.

Happy 4th of July from the ICE facility in Broadview, IL, where ~2 hrs ago a Fed fired pepper balls from inside his blacked out SUV, striking an older protester in the torso. Others rendered aid, quickly wiping the irritants off them and getting them a fresh shirt before taking them to the hospital.

Per video shared online, ICE agents detained a man inside the Country Club Hills, IL police office earlier this afternoon. The agents didn't respond to requests to show a warrant, pointed weapons at the man they detained, and one agent raised his fist at the man as another agent grabbed his arm.

Earlier this week, Intelligencer ran a piece called "ICE Won." We definitely don't agree with the title, but its gist—that the normalization of federal police violence is accelerating—is proving accurate. ICE arrests roughly doubled in Chicagoland in June over May. Some more thoughts on that:

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Good afternoon from the ICE facility at Broadview, Illinois, where protesters are preparing for their weekly Saturday demonstration. Passing cars coming off I-290 are greeted by protesters with megaphones. Sign: “PRITZKER IS WEAK ON ICE”

Correction: Will County rapid responders are now reporting that ICE agents took at least one person outside the courthouse in Joliet, IL around 11 a.m. That brings us to at least 5 reported ICE abductions across the Chicago area today alone (that I know of).

Can’t believe I’m gonna cry watching the fifth installment of a legendary film franchise twice this weekend.

My jazz-loving heart: “Fuck yeah it’s back!” My 30+ year-old body: “Fuck it’s back.”

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Video shared to social media by rapid response shows ICE agents abducting a man this A.M. from inside the Bridgeview Courthouse. Outside, Cook County Sheriff’s deputy Gigliotti #19013 daps it up with one of the agents. Asked about IL law preventing arrests at courthouses, deputy Glover shrugs.

It is wild to me how little attention the ramping up of ICE activity in Chicagoland is getting. Feds changed their tactics, operations are faster, more targeted, and broader operation range. My colleagues @djbyrnes1.bsky.social, @zoetakaki.bsky.social and @domguan.bsky.social wrote about it.

This story took a lot. On several days that seemed like it'd be good to finalize things, we'd hear of some new ICE fracas we needed to include in the data and reporting. Now that it's done, kudos to @zoetakaki.bsky.social, @domguan.bsky.social and @andral404.bsky.social for their incredible work.

This story took a lot; watching traumatizing videos of abductions and creating data out of ever-changing numbers. Proud of my @unraveledpress.com team. Thanks @domguan.bsky.social, @djbyrnes1.bsky.social, and @andral404.bsky.social for your collaboration on this story. It’s an important one.

Per video shared to social media, the same federal agent in a skull mask who on May 31 brandished a baton at onlookers while ICE detained 2 people outside the Kane County Sheriff's Office, today broke a person's car window while conducting another arrest outside the Kane County Judicial Center.

Earlier today rapid responders reported federal agents detaining someone on Grace & Olcott in Chicago. A nearby resident got video of an unmarked SUV striking a red car at high speed in the residential area around 10:24 am. He then described seeing men in tactical vests on scene, one marked "ICE."

It's been a brutal two weeks in Chicagoland with ICE pointing guns and tasers, multiple car crashes, violent arrests and a significant uptick in detainments overall. Feds continue to stalk courthouses across multiple counties. Today, agents were also seen at the rideshare lots at O'Hare.

Happening now in Albany Park: Protesters are gathering in the corner of Kedzie and Lawrence to protest ICE’s increasing activity in Chicago. On Tuesday morning a man was was taken by federal agents by this intersection, sparking two days of protests and demonstrations.

Videos shared publicly online yesterday show federal agents (at least two marked ICE) arresting one man on the grounds of the Kane County, IL Sheriff's Office (one rapid response group reported 2 detentions). The facility shares grounds with the Kane County Jail & Kane County Judicial Center.

I have been yelling the first paragraph at my phone for the last 24 hours.

NEW, from @zoetakaki.bsky.social & @peoplesfabric.bsky.social: A Forest Park cop won't be charged by North Riverside police over an incident captured on video where, while off duty and wearing a Trump jersey, he yanked a terrified young woman from her car and arrested her—for hitting a curb.

New: ABC7 reports Ricardo Hernandez Navarrete, the Mather High School student taken by immigration authorities alongside his mother Liliana Navarrete Capazan in March (for both of whom Chicago community members organized a press conference in April), has now been reunited with his mother:

Yesterday federal immigration agents were spotted in a yard in Joliet, IL. Rapid responders reported one person detained. One agent briefly raised what appears to be a handgun toward a person filming them from inside a home. Per video posted to social media, a child was present inside at the time.

ICE is out in full force today at Delaney Hall in tactical gear. They're threatening the hunger strikers with transfer and have already transferred one of the strike leaders. The community is out, too, refusing to let this happen.

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The main menu for Paralives—a Sims competitor—is LITERALLY A TRAIN. It looks so freaking COZY.

A new report from researchers at Chicago Appleseed says Eileen O'Neill Burke has reversed years of progress as top prosecutor with policies that have led to harsher charges, more pre-trial detention, and less accountability for cops. Legal reform advocates also give her a failing grade on ICE:

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The full Chicago Appleseed report is available here. @domguan.bsky.social contributed to the reporting for this story.

the cook county board criminal justice committee votes to advance a nearly $1 million expansion to sheriff tom dart's flock license plate reader network. voting no: stamps, anaya, vásquez this sets the proposal up for final approval during tomorrow's county board hearing.

As ICE has returned to swifter arrests across Chicagoland, internal alerts & stats collected by public defenders show courthouses have become a honeypot. Sightings near county property have continued this week, & feds abducted 1 person from Pullman court today. More from @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

Earlier at today’s weekly Broadview ICE facility protest, a protester brought their pet pig (named Julia Gulia), w/ “GOOD PIG” written on her harness. They also brought a sign with a collage of “BAD PIGS” from the various local police agencies protecting the facility for the past seven months.

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NEW: Last night, families who have lost loved ones to gun and vehicular violence voiced their frustrations with Chicago police detectives, citing a lack of progress and poor communication. from @zoetakaki.bsky.social

Rapid responders are reporting another busy morning for federal immigration agents in the Chicago area today. Hijos de Migrantes reports at least 1 person detained in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, another in custody in the Austin neighborhood, and possible activity in North Lawndale and Cicero.

“Fort asked how Lemon became the story. Maybe, she said, it was to ‘divert attention’ from the focus of the protest: David Easterwood, the pastor who apparently worked for ICE. ‘It’s become more about the charges and less about the reason why community was there in the first place,’ she said.”

Update on today's Chicagoland federal immigration agent activity from community group Hijos de Migrantes: As of 2:24 pm, the group reports at least 4 people taken, plus 1 person reportedly detained by DEA. Reported sightings w/o confirmed detentions in Elgin, Glendale Heights, Pullman.

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights is reporting an uptick in ICE activity across the Chicago area over the last week, incl. reported abductions at Cook County courthouses and immigration check ins. Chicago neighborhoods of reported activity include Rogers Park, Austin and Pilsen.

The only hope I have for whatever this Nintendo Cinematic Universe becomes, is for a director to go rogue (one) and pull an Andor (injecting deep meaning into a soul-less franchise via a singular work). E.g. a Paul Thomas Anderson Ice Climbers TV show that somehow has surveillance state allegories.

“Would you like your milkshake now or with your meal?” How dare you correctly assume I don’t have self-control.

District Judge Rob Gettleman has issued his order mandating that clergy can access the Broadview, IL ICE facility between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday this week to offer those inside Easter services. Gettleman found "the government has substantially burdened plaintiffs’ exercise of religion."

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As the parks department destroys people’s belongings, a CPD officer decides to keep an American flag as the only thing saved from the trash truck.

New: The U.S. Attorney' Office in Chicago has moved to dismiss the indictment against 2 of the "Broadview Six," Chicago aldermanic staffer Cat Sharp, and musician Joselyn Walsh. The six together faced conspiracy and impeding charges over a 9/26/2025 protest outside the Broadview, IL ICE facility.