Here’s the New York Times using 19 words to hint at what FAFO means.

Under Bovino, federal agents tear-gassed neighborhoods, made warrantless arrests, and relied on racial profiling. A father of two was killed. A woman was shot five times. Chicago was only the beginning. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

Lawyer for woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Chicago wants body-cam footage, other evidence made public

Meet the runners who refuse to let Chicago’s arctic chill slow them down. “We’re crazy, man,” one said. blockclubchi.co/4qOmWmg

We’ll see how things change in Minneapolis with Gregory Bovino gone. But he and his Border Patrol agents are the ones responsible for the biggest excesses in Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and elsewhere. Homan isn’t the architect of the roving convoys stopping at Target and going for anyone.

My latest: ICE releases Guatemalan mother after seven months. It failed to provide a reason or evidence justifying her detention. The mother said her strength came from her local church in a Chicago suburb, which rallied around her family during that time. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/m...

While Marina Lopez was in ICE detention for seven months, parishioners in her church stepped up to help care for her family. This is their story, told by @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social in a great Sunday @chicagotribune.com read www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/m...

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

A long read from the Tribune: 64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz (gift link) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

U.S. Reps. Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson arrived carrying a federal court order confirming that members of Congress cannot be blocked from conducting oversight at immigration detention facilities.

For those looking to set reading goals or resolutions in 2026, here’s how to get back into the habit.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, and the agents who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, falsely depicted ordinary Chicagoans as professional agitators determined to mount a violent resistance, a federal judge determined. @wttw.bsky.social

When the Government Doesn't Want You Reporting on ICE A conversation with Chicago Tribune reporter @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social about covering ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ and staying rooted in community

“They’re not even treating me like a human being.” Our Sunday story with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and Rebecca Johnson about Bovino’s agents racial profiling throughout Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

The Trump administration says that more than 1.6 million immigrants have self-deported. But there's also evidence of an internal migration from target cities and states and into quieter areas that feel safer.

When the Government Doesn't Want You Reporting on ICE A conversation with Chicago Tribune reporter @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social about covering ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ and staying rooted in community By @juliorvarela.com

Latino U.S. citizens/ permanent residents racially profiled by immigration agents in Chicago. Even after they told the agents they were in the country legally, officers zip-tied their hands & detained them, in some cases even transporting them to Broadview. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

Only 16 of the 614 people whose Chicago-area immigration arrests may have violated a 2022 consent decree have criminal histories that present a “high public safety risk.” Several have already reunited with their families in the Chicago area. Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...

The Trump administration on Friday released the names of 614 people whose Chicago-area immigration arrests may have violated a 2022 consent decree, and only 16 of them have criminal histories that present a “high public safety risk.”

I am so impressed with the Chicago journalists covering the invasion of their city, and this interview with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social is inspiring. A must read. Brava! pressingissues.org/when-the-gov...

In today's Pressing Issues, we sit down for a conversation with Chicago Tribune reporter @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social about covering 'Operation Midway Blitz' and staying rooted in community. More: https://pressingissues.org/when-the-government-doesnt-want-you-reporting-on-ice/

Just moments ago, detainees transported from ICE’s Broadview facility this morning were loaded onto an Avelo Airlines plane in Gary, Indiana.

That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death. The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Agents pointed guns out of their car windows at civilians/media, including 2 Tribune photographers, as they roamed around the neighborhood. The shooter who allegedly targeted agents remains at large. DHS did not say which agency is investigating. Bovino said on X that between 5/7 shot were fired.

Border Patrol in Little Village again today. Residents called it a show of force & retaliation after a court order limited agents’ use of force on protesters. Agents were met by angry residents. DHS says shots were fired at agents. No injuries reported. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.

Ogden and 26th Street at 11:30 a.m. today. Federal authorities claimed someone shot at their agents in Little Village this morning. They spent the next several hours circling the neighborhood, deploying chemical crowd controls and arresting people.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c... Our (nearly) final word on the day is here if you'd like to see. W/ @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social, @mandophotos.bsky.social, @briancassella.bsky.social.

An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government. Developing story in Little Village. Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground

BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.

I asked the Department of Homeland Security for comment on Judge Ellis saying Gregory Bovino lied under oath. Their second response was to diss her(?) as an “Obama crony,” praise me for riveting journalism, and finally defend Bovino

LATEST: An ICE agent in the Chicago area for "Operation Midway Blitz" has been charged with DUI after leaving his shift at the Broadview facility. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...

After the blitz took off, we published an investigation of the horrid conditions inside the Broadview ICE facility. Yesterday, a hearing over those conditions took place after Illinois advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against immigration officials. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/b...

Relief could come soon for ICE detainees facing "cruel" conditions in Broadview, a judge says. blockclubchi.co/4qJ9nVq

Nearly two months into “Operation Midway Blitz,” the controversial use-of-force tactics by immigration agents under the Trump administration will take center stage Wednesday in a Chicago federal courtroom.

Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her. Her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released without charges. Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Story from @adrianaperez.bsky.social: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/m...

Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda, or altar, that a couple of dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González, the man shot and killed by an ICE agent in northwest suburban Franklin Park nearly two months ago.

911 calls in Little Village, an epicenter of "Operation Midway Blitz," have dropped like a rock. Neighborhood crime is way down but fear of federal agents is way up. Reported by @samjcharles.bsky.social, @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and Rebecca Johnson www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...

🧵 Gregory Royal Pratt and Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune are doing great work on the immigration crackdown. Homeland Security has called out both of them on social media in futile attempts to intimidate them. @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social

“What immigration enforcement looks like now is not just arrests. It’s public intimidation.” Must read by Chicago journalists @royalpratt.bsky.social & @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social on how Bovino & the border patrol are taking over from ICE with 'cameras rolling' & reckless racial profiling.

NEWS: Bovino won't have to make a daily court appearance. For now. DOJ motion argues that would hamper mission of "ensuring the Nation’s immigration laws are properly enforced by waylaying a senior executive official critical to that mission on a daily basis.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/b...

Breaking news: The United States economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a report released by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper.

There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!

The Berwyn FB live feed incident occurred at 16th & Euclid. After striking the front end of the livestream recorder's vehicle, multiple masked Border Patrol agents appear from their own vehicles. One pulls the person recording out of their car, telling them, "you're under arrest for impeding."

A federal judge was taking Border Control Cmdr. Gregory Bovino point-by-point through her temporary restraining order restricting the use of tear gas, telling him that “kids dressed in Halloween costumes” do not pose any threat.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis. What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social: