ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: At approximately 1pm today, the Rapid Response Network verified the presence of over 50 federal agents in Downtown Chicago near Millennium Park, as well as the Apple Store, Chicago River, and other locations along Michigan Avenue.

Probably 40+ border patrol some holding automatic weapons on South Michigan Avenue just now 12:20 pm. Fully masked. #NoIceInChicago. @icirr.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

Might have seen an ICE car on Lawrence at Monticello. Was biking the opposite way and turned down a street before I could verify

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.

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Alerts from the Northwest Side Rapid Response network today. First one about ICE at Home Depot at Addison and Kimball.

Reading Animal Stories by Kate Zambreno, went down a Garry Winogrand rabbit hole, and remembered the giant Marilyn sculpture in Chicago

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Sorry if thread is broken, it's still chaotic out here. A lot more gas, it's awful, can't see that well. ICE just tackled and arrested two protesters.

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

When a man becomes a parent, that’s Dadaism

I went to my mom's neighborhood last week and I was telling her and my sister how it felt so quiet. Usually we can hear people and music from her porch, but I didn't hear much that day. Walking there, it felt eerily quiet. So much life and vibrancy in our nhoods that is endangered rn.

This is a great book about (amongst other things) how CBP really abuses that 100-mile border radius. Get out of my damn city!

Some good reminders in here 📚

In 2022, Live Nation paid ceo Michael Rapino $139 million for the year

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Shoutout @jasondiamond.bsky.social for signing my book even though I couldn’t make the party at @volumesbooks.bsky.social (looks like he forgives me for that Malort shot at the Whistler years ago)

If RayLo is against it, you know it’s a good idea

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during Ronald Reagan’s term.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

JUST NOW — Our reporters are at the Broadview ICE facility (outside of Chicago) where protestors have been demonstrating since 5:00 a.m. As a cargo van left the facility, a federal agent on the roof started shooting what seems to be pepper balls at protestors just before 9:00 a.m. 🎥: The TRiiBE

If you are in chicago and you have thought - I just don’t know what to do - I have somewhere you need to be on Saturday! www.eventbrite.com/e/free-chica...

Sound & Gravity was as advertised: a mini-Big Ears. Words on and photos of Sam Prekop, James Elkington/Nathan Salsburg, Bill Callahan, Helen Money, Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez, and Finom. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/7950428...

The first of many group rides x mutual aid initiatives organized to support our street vendors. Join us tomorrow if you’re in the Chi! #BikeChi

Follow Shawn for updates today:

“They are taking innocent people, and it’s affecting the community,” Raquel said. “You can’t even be at peace in your own home.”

Salt Shed absolutely number one worst venue in the city of Chicago

More confirmed ICE activity in Chicago this morning. Reported shortly after 10 a.m. The Wicker Park / Humboldt Park neighborhoods both have large Latine populations; this is as about as deep into the city proper that we've yet seen agents cruising the streets. bsky.app/profile/bmes...

Scenes from a workbreak walk around the Loop

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Happening now: it's a tense scene at the Broadview ICE processing facility outside Chicago this morning where a large protest is planned. ICE operations continue to ramp up across the city and burbs. Ten Chicago SRT agents out here with pepper ball dispensers, one long gun.

NEW — The HBCU campus threats happened a day after Trump ally Charlie Kirk was killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, a predominantly white school. Also, the FBI released a photo today of a white person of interest in Kirk’s shooting. thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...

Ok sure why not, Sound & Gravity thread

Gonna get kicked out of Umi Dispensary for playing “What’s New Pussycat” ten times in a row

Today in things that should never be happening but especially now of all times:

Tr*mp: We’re going to war with Chicago!!! Chicago: leave us alone, we literally just want to buy books

Great reading at @whistlerchicago.bsky.social last night! @neonpajamas.bsky.social

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe! Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

To any dipshit who thought "hey, the first Trump term wasn't so bad, we survived":

Outside the ICE facility in Broadview, IL this morning— Masked agents in unmarked cars are arriving at work. DHS will be using the de facto detention center as their main "processing" site for the impending Chicago ICE surge. Protesters are gathering, with a large number of press here as well.

How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social

Made up a little song for my #bikechi morning commute, dedicated to drivers swerving into bike lanes: 🎶 Don’t Go Taking Elston Ave / please stick to the highways and the streets that you’re used to / I know that you think that 90/94 has way too much traffic / but you’re gonna cause a big crash 🎶

Personal news: I'm stepping down from my role at the @chicagoreader.com. Details in my editor's note. Thank you for reading and please continue to read, share, and support the work of the Reader's talented writers, editors, & staff. It's truly been a privilege. chicagoreader.com/columns-opin...

With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.

Joe Strummer in Mystery Train David Johansen / Buster Pointdexter in Scrooged