ICYMI, this was our big story Sunday — an intimate look at what happened to a couple split up by the federal deportation campaign in Chicago. Great reporting from Mexico by @adrianacardmag.bsky.social. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Alexa Ramírez came to Chicago with big plans for the future. After her arrest, Ramírez signed a form agreeing to voluntarily leave the country. As she tries to readjust to life in Mexico, she and her husband are working out how to rebuild their life together.

This never gets old. #dabears #chicagobears

Yeah, why? chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

What body cam videos captured when federal agents went to the Northwest Side on Oct. 12. Read @chipmitchell1.bsky.social's report.

Chicago faced unprecedented challenges in 2025 including federal immigration enforcement, massive protests and Madigan's sentencing. WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times photographers captured the year's defining moments.

Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who has led the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, returned to the Chicago area Tuesday morning in the city’s Southwest Side and western suburbs.

ICYMI yesterday, your morning read. @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social and @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social reporting. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The city has seen more service calls to start this year’s snow season than the same time period in any year since at least 2019, a WBEZ/Sun-Times analysis of 311 data found.

Yes, @profgalloway.com just rocked a Chicago Public Media crop top... Here’s to public media — in Chicago and across the country! @wbez.org #PivotTour

Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.

Tyler and I are out here at the rally where the crowd has about doubled since this first post. Easily 400+ people. Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”

Follow @jonseidel.bsky.social's reporting on the legal cases arising out of the federal deportation campaign in Chicago, and you, too, may want to become a @chicago.suntimes.com member.

U.S. Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino is at Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Tuesday for a status hearing as part of an ongoing lawsuit over the feds’ treatment of protesters during the ongoing immigration blitz. 🔴 LIVE updates: trib.al/Y0WEg3j

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino expected in Chicago's Dirksen Federal Courthouse today in tear gas case. There are already a lot of cameras in the lobby. Preview from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to undo an order that has blocked it from deploying National Guard troops within Illinois for more than a week.

Several social media posts erroneously claim that Mayor Brandon Johnson deployed the salt trucks along Chicago’s expressways to block ICE operations. But that's not true. trib.al/bY0FPWD

NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones

Strong reporting and writing on these two stories, the first by Mary Norkol and the second by @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social, make both great Sunday reads. chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/...

The fire station across from Wrigley Field provided some relief from the heat after Saturday’s game. Just walk on by and take a quick cold shower. #Chicago #chicagocubs

Unexpected Red Line doubleheader opportunity tomorrow. White Sox play Cardinals at 1:10. Cubs play at 1:20. Then the Sox play a second game right after their first. Cubs fans who make the trek will feel oddly compelled to root for the South Siders. #Chicago #mlb #cta

It’s starting to look a lot like summer. #Chicago

'No Kings' protests are coming to Chicago and the suburbs Saturday. The Chicago rally will start at Daley Plaza around noon. Follow along here for live updates.

The amateur meteorologists in the left field bleachers are debating whether this is fog or mist. #ChicagoWeather #ChicagoCubs

Today's front page.

Pope Leo XIV will always be Father Bob to Heidi Skokal. Her dad was close friends with Robert Francis Prevost for decades. The two were die-hard Sox fans. When her father was sick and dying from pancreatic cancer, Prevost called him and the family often.

Cubs jump the gun and get an X “community note.” Leo the Lip was a Cub but Pope Leo XIV rooted for the Sox.

Here’s @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social ‘s story from a week ago with all the background on Robert Prevost, the new pope and a Chicago native.

Are you a Chicago resident who saw your property taxes skyrocket the last few years? I’m looking to talk to folks for a story on both the appeals process and shifting tax burden between businesses/homeowners, so reply or send me a DM if either applies and you’d be interested!

My colleagues spent months looking at violent, unprovoked attacks by mentally ill people in Chicago — how existing systems are failing them and their victims. An important story, and one that's worth your time and worth sharing with others.

While the Cubs’ new baby blues are a huge improvement over the navy City Connect uniforms, I agree that elegant home whites (and road grays) feel special and that all these alternate unis are just a hot mess.

Facebook and Shake Shack might want to have a conversation about ad placement.

Any self-respecting 4-year-old would scramble up to the top and end up in the ER. #Chicago #navypier

Yes, because travelers all love the industry standard boarding experience. thepointsguy.com/news/southwe... #swa

Seasons that ended in misery. Yes, I'm going to put them on my license plate to get constant reminders of Steve Garvey and of the Mets. #chicagocubs

The 66, it seems, was the party bus today. #cta #Chicago

Shorts guys all spending today at O'Hare? #Chicago #Chicagoweather

The latest in the @chicago.suntimes.com weekly series on #Chicago murals and artists features the prolific Max Sansing.

Who includes their last name when signing a love letter? MJ of course.

Nope, won’t be using these plates.

If you’re an isolated patch of snow, you may think at first that today seems apocalyptic. But then you remind yourself, it’s February 25. Reinforcements are coming. #chicagoweather

Kids, don’t read. Nothing to see here. 🎁

Great read from the @chicago.suntimes.com's Mitch Dudek on the life of Jimbo Levato, a member of the Chicago 16" Softball Hall of Fame, owner of a White Sox fans tavern and himself a Cubs fan.

AMBER Alerts are a good thing that would be better if there were a setting to deliver them silently when one is sleeping. I wonder how many people simply turned them off after getting awakened by this one.

Here comes summer! #chicagoweather

Fully stocked coolers in Wrigley Field's new $175 center field seats "might help consumers forget that the price of a ticket isn’t going toward better players," the @chicago.suntimes.com's Rick Morrissey writes.

Trump reverses course, reinstates some EPA workers fired from Chicago office just days earlier chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Chicago watchdog warns that many of the city's drinking water pipes run too close to sewer lines, creating a contamination risk and violating the law. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Spring is not in the air, Chicago.