The Trump administration plans to halt $10 billion in federal funding for child care assistance, low income and social service funds in Illinois and four other Democrat-led states, alleging unspecified “massive amounts of fraud.” chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth submitted a criminal referral to the Justice Department over alleged constitutional violations — including warrantless arrests and the use of excessive force — by federal immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Rep. Delia Ramirez and Sen. Tammy Duckworth went face-to-face with top Trump administration officials in Washington hearings Thursday, with Ramirez calling for an investigation into Noem’s “potentially impeachable actions” and repeatedly calling her a liar. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has donated $29,300 — the entirety of campaign contributions from Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar — to immigrant rights groups, his Senate campaign said on Wednesday. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Senate candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi is running a TV ad about his plans to “stop” President Donald Trump, but he has also accepted more than $90,000 in contributions from key Trump and MAGA donors, including Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood tours Broadview ICE facility and warns deportation blitz isn't over @tinasfon.bsky.social reports, via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Rep. Chuy Garcia was publicly criticized on the House floor Wednesday by a fellow Democrat who wants to adopt a resolution claiming Garcia undermined “the process of a free and fair election” by helping his chief of staff take his place on the ballot. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents to soon leave Chicago but could be back four-fold in March UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...

"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents." chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social

Sen. Dick Durbin is once again under fire for voting to advance a Republican-led House measure that would help end the government shutdown — angering Democrats who say the extension of health care subsidies must be part of any deal with Republicans. chicago.suntimes.com/us-senate/20...

An Illinois Department of Transportation employee was stopped by ICE agents while working on a Park Ridge construction project Friday morning — and questioned about incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before being released. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

With Chuy out, Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez explores independent bid for Garcia's Congressional seat chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

“As a rule, Chicago pols love to jimmy rig the election process to install a chosen one," the @suntimes wrote in a 2014 editorial. I compiled a list of Chicago machine-like examples of anointing a successor, including family hand-me-downs. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

In a surprise move, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is not seeking re-election, leaving in place a succession plan for his chief of staff, the only Democrat to file for his seat on the last day to do so. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

Federal agents fired pepper balls after detaining two people in Albany Park Friday morning as the immigration blitz in Chicago continued through Halloween. “It’s actually horrifying. ... It happens so fast. You prepare, but then you don’t know what to do.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Gov. JB Pritzker has asked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to suspend immigration enforcement operations throughout Chicago for three days so kids can safely celebrate Halloween. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The federal appeals court in Chicago today put a temporary hold on the order requiring Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino to appear in a courtroom every weeknight until Nov. 5. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... via @jonseidel.bsky.social

DEVELOPING: Feds charge Kat Abughazaleh, other political candidates in conspiracy indictment tied to Broadview protests Reporting w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Border in the Court: Today's @chicago.suntimes.com front page story on Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino's appearance at Chicago's Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Pic by Ashlee Rezin. Reporting w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Greg Bovino showed up as ordered in a federal courtroom in Chicago on Tuesday. And it turns out he and the judge will be getting to know each other a lot better. UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Judge Ellis ordered Bovino to come into her courtroom every day at 6 p.m. to provide a report on CBP activities until the TRO ends. She continued a motion filed by plaintiffs to stop the use of tear gas: "If they are using tear gas they better be able to back it up..."

Judge Ellis asks Bovino if he has a body worn camera. He says no. "How about by Friday you get one for yourself?" Ellis asks. Bovino says, "We can get that... and the training."

Judge Ellis: "I would like you to do your best to ensure that everybody who is operating under this Midway Blitz Operation, that they all wear body worn cameras." Bovino responds, "Yes, ma'am."

Judge Ellis: "So, kids dressed in Halloween costumes, walking to a parade, do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer. They just don't." Bovino did not react.

Judge Sara Ellis has been reading the TRO line by line to Bovino on the stand, and commenting on what she's seen: "You've got to leave journalists alone. If they're doing their job, they need to be left alone to do their job."

Bovino just walked into the courtroom. Hearing set to begin at 10 a.m. He is wearing his usual Border Patrol green uniform.

Follow @jonseidel.bsky.social and I for updates today from the Dirksen Federal courthouse, where Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino is expected to appear. Here's a picture of protestors at the courthouse's entrance. It's unclear whether Bovino will go through this entrance.

If you want to know what’s going on in Chicago with ICE/DHS — read this excellent piece by @tinasfon.bsky.social @jonseidel.bsky.social And thank the journalists who are documenting events on the ground! (No paywall at Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Public Media) chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

'It's clear that [Illinois State Police] is the difference maker.' That's what a Chicago ICE official wrote in an email, among hundreds of docs considered by Judge April Perry as she blocked Nat Guard deployment here. @tinasfon.bsky.social and I took a look: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Posing as a TV reporter clad with body armor, Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday mocked the Trump administrative narrative that National Guard troops are needed to quell chaos in “war-torn Chicago” in a bit for ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-gov...

JUDGE TO TRUMP'S TROOPS: RETREAT Today's @chicago.suntimes.com front page story on Judge April Perry's ruling blocking National Guard deployment, w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Must-read from my former colleagues Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social & Tina Sfondeles @tinasfon.bsky.social on ruling keeping military out of #Chicago #NotroopsinChicago chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state. U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

As former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. stages a comeback that will upend the open race for the 2nd Congressional District, his competitors are prepared to pounce on his past. Jackson Jr., 60, plans to announce his run for the seat this week. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

National Guard troops could hit Chicago streets as soon as Tuesday after a judge refused Illinois attorneys' plea to immediately block a deployment called “illegal, dangerous and unconstitutional.” FINAL @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social : chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday told about 800 of the country’s top military officials that he’s using “dangerous cities as training grounds” for the military and will be going into Chicago “very soon.” chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday said the Illinois National Guard has received word that the Department of Homeland Security is seeking the deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Gov. Pritzker says the Illinois National Guard has received word that the Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to the Department of War seeking the deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois. They are citing the safety of ICE officers as a reason.

Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old college student killed in a DUI hit-and-run crash, is at the center of the Trump administration's DHS Chicago deportation campaign. chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Former Chicagoans living in DC talk to @chicago.suntimes.com Washington correspondent @tinasfon.bsky.social about the growing tensions in the capitol city since the National Guard rolled into town www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Despite President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize the D.C. police force and deploy the National Guard to fight violent crime in the nation’s capital, he cannot deliver on his threat to do the same in Chicago, state and local officials said Monday. chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Trump also said this about Pritzker today: "I understand he wants to be president, but I noticed he lost a little weight. So maybe he has a chance." Pritzker's response: "I guess I should say thank you for the compliment."

Gov. Pritzker on President Trump saying other cities, like Chicago, could see National Guard deployment: "He has absolutely no right and no legal ability to send troops in to the city of Chicago, and so I reject that notion."

The floodgates are open in the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Danny Davis in the securely blue 7th Congressional District. At least nine candidates are waiting in the wings to replace him. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Danny Davis on Thursday announced his retirement after serving 15 terms in Congress and handed a hefty endorsement to State Rep. La Shawn Ford. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten is among 78 House Dems urging top health care CEOs to continue providing vaccine coverage — after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month ousted all members of a vaccine advisory board and replaced them with his own picks. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Update: DHS tells the Sun-Times that Homeland Security's Chicago’s Financial Crimes Task Force were staging a briefing about a drug investigation. Still, the incident unleashed panic in a community living in fear of raids and deportations. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Humboldt Park’s National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture was swarmed by 15 Department of Homeland Security vehicles on Tuesday afternoon, in what local elected officials called a survey of the neighborhood ahead of two widely attended festivals. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

As the Trump tax bill heads back to the House, activists are now focusing their efforts on the three Republican members of the Illinois delegation, despite their allegiances to Trump: Reps. Mary Miller, Darin LaHood and Mike Bost. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...