Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.

If you can get past all the cop quotes, there is a lot of important detail in here on the timeline of the last few months and how much violence the feds have inflicted on people. Infuriating and despair-inducing.

Once you earn a goth girl’s trust, you may feed her Mike & Ikes straight from your hand

They took Fetterman to a horse hospital

We might not make it

Much to the chagrin of his publicist, Rahm Emanuel is NOT in the Epstein emails

I will never have anything in common with a NYT reporter. They are a different species. They move through a world I will never have access to as someone who dropped out of college three times and happily swears while reporting. I would like society to stop pretending we are doing the same "job"

I have to eat a bagel every morning because it's five minutes I don't spend thinking about my own death

I think about this a lot too. I am deeply morally wounded by this shitshow.

For no reason at all today, just thinking back to like a month ago when an ICE agent shouted down from the roof of Broadview that he likes choking women. Men are awesome and should definitely continue to have all the power and all the guns

Surge is a beautiful name for a baby girl

every so often it's breaking news that powerful men are doing exactly what we all knew they were doing

His head looks so small for his body here

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Sleeping until 11 when the sun sets at 4:30 is an incredible, health affirming choice that will not at all make you feel like you've been stripped of your soul and cast into hell

He thought he had learned pain, but he would learn it again and again, all his life, and forget none of it.

Remember when Dick Durbin endorsed Paul Vallas?

Hardly a day goes by now without seeing video/photos of federal agents in Chicago casually pointing actual firearms or pepper ball dispensers right at people's heads. They've already killed one person and injured another by gunfire. We are on the verge of another tragedy without real intervention.

It’s a choice to see a Nazi government as legitimate and only certain acts of that government as unlawful excesses. The 600,000+ people killed by the illegal abolition of USAID, the people starving for lack of SNAP, and the terror in Chicago - all of it flows from a singular, illegitimate project.

It's not even noon yet and feds (specifically Border Patrol and BOP officers in this caravan with Bovino) have fired tear gas, pepper balls, and bean bag rounds at people in Little Village and Cicero.

In the last 48hrs CBP/ICE across Chicagoland has: fired pepper balls at people on multiple occasions, tackled + arrested a nonverbal and visibly disabled man, kidnapped landscaping workers off lawns in the north shore suburbs, and pointed their firearms down a busy street for a DHS photo op

Chicago tonight

The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)

Love to "stray into a pepper ball"

I legitimately thought Curtis Sliwa was a musician and also several decades younger this entire time

Three weeks later: nothing has changed/everything has changed It feels a lot like living in two worlds at once and having one foot each in different realms. None of us are ever fully present anymore, because we can't be. We've had to split ourselves in half out of necessity.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

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Descending raccoon. Seen at Chicago’s Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

Video from today's first gas attack. Saturday morning in Chicago.

As ICE continues to terrorize our communities, kidnapping our neighbors, 9 cyclists came together this morning at 6am to buyout 5 vendors and donate the food to a local shelter. They went home safe, hungry ppl were fed, this is #BikeChi ✊🏽

Why does everyone keep calling Greg Bovino Broken Dick Greg everywhere he goes? Please stop calling him Broken Dick Greg because that is not his name and also please don’t tell the news people are following him around Chicago calling him Broken Dick Greg. DO NOT share this!!! 🚫

Brb cooking a meal for the family of the guy who shot me in the face

Proud to be included in this short list, very sad as many others are to see such a critical platform (one that inspired our own approach to reporting on movements and resistance) shutter. Ten years is a great run and admitting when a project has reached its terminus takes courage! @igd.bsky.social

10/17/25

The tension between "these daily atrocities are the new normal and you have to go on living anyway" and "these atrocities should never be normalized/the world should stop"

9/27/25

Steve is fine/uninjured. Some neck pain from being tackled. His biggest concern while in custody was what was happening to people outside the facility since he couldn't hear any of the munitions from inside. In typical Steve fashion, he also made a number of new friends while detained.

"It’s just ongoing ethnic cleansing. It’s just guys in masks moving swiftly, picking people off that they know no one will care about and no one will plan a protest for. No one will lower the flag for." Really brilliant work on this fucking nightmare.

I worked with the reporters at @unraveledpress.com and the Chicago Reader's @mulchy.bsky.social yesterday to cover a brutal day of ICE activity in the Chicago suburbs. By day's end, immigration agents had killed a man and, only a few miles away, subjected protestors to tear gas and pepper balls.

Some personal context on this reporting: All of this happened just a few miles from where I grew up, in the near west Cook County burbs. My mom and her friends rode their bikes through these neighborhoods and around the ICE facility where militarized agents assaulted community yesterday.

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New It Could Happen Here Mia talks with Unraveled journalist Raven about the impending deployment of the National Guard, ICE and the Border Patrol to Chicago and how the city is preparing to resist. @miawong.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

This was incidental to our main line of reporting but it’s astounding how quickly CPD’s license plate reader network has expanded in less than three years. Your every move is tracked, and in exchange, they still can’t clear cases.

Automated license plate readers "are seemingly popping up everywhere—including 650 new cameras in Illinois cities since 2023." Flock "collects 20 billion license plate scans per month." "[W]e don't really have privacy or rights anymore.” #Illinois #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Genocide

If you want to get an idea of what your local department may have purchased with these grants (2/3 of the total went to surveillance tech), we mapped them all for you.

Now that these license plate readers have proven so dangerous to the concept of Illinois as a safe haven for everyone from undocumented immigrants to abortion patients, we of course had a number of questions for Raoul's office about Flock & the ORC fund. They did not reply to our repeated requests.

CPD spent nearly all of their ORC money on overtime costs, not new cameras. But in reporting this, we got an updated number of ALPRs from CPD: They've added almost a thousand ALPRs since WBEZ last reported on them in April 2022. At the time, they reportedly had 433. Now they have 1,386.