A federal jury determined Chicago police officers did not violate the civil rights of the Chicago man they shot during a February 2020 incident in the Grand Red Line CTA station, records show. @wttw.bsky.social

A new investigation today from @ndblumberg.bsky.social focuses on Roseland Hospital. On Oct. 3, a man was taken to the ER after reporting he was a danger to himself and his wife. Because he was experiencing thoughts of suicide, regulators say he should've been monitored at all times. He wasn't.

Pooling assets. Cutting fees. Improving returns. Illinois’ pension consolidation is changing the game for suburban communities. Dive into the numbers in my latest report 👮🧑‍🚒 Look up your community if you live outside Chicago!

For those of you into positive vibes and quality public programming, might I suggest you consider the fine people at @wttw.bsky.social this #GivingTuesday #GivingNewsday? secure.wttw.com

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A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday. https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA

Full quote from Ellis: "The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion." @wttw.bsky.social

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

A federal judge is ordering Trump officials to address “unacceptable” conditions at the ICE processing facility in Broadview after hearing hours of testimony from detainees detailing overcrowding, a lack of bedding and inadequate food and water. https://to.wttw.com/3JkdbvB

Since 2019, the Chicago Police Department has operated under a consent decree. WTTW News has spent the last few months diving deep into why reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve, and you can find it all here. 🧵🔽

Testimony continues today as part of a lawsuit brought by the MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois asking for a temporary restraining order to address what they claim are “inhumane and unlawful conditions” at the Broadview facility. news.wttw.com/2025/11/03/f...

FULL STORY: Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino will not appear in court Wednesday for what was to be the first of his daily check-ins with a judge after a federal appellate court granted an emergency stay hours before he was set to appear, @bymattmasterson.bsky.social reports for @wttw.bsky.social

NEW: An Illinois lawmaker put out a call to corrections staff to contact her about incarcerated undocumented people. Months later, she gets a list purporting to be that, and hands it to Kristi Noem. But it appears to be information that DHS already had access to. news.wttw.com/2025/10/24/i...

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget for 2026 sets aside just $82.5M to cover the cost of resolving police misconduct lawsuits, even though the city has already agreed to spend $90M next year to resolve 176 lawsuits tied to former Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team. @wttw.bsky.social

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

As we wait for Judge April Perry to rule, here's my full story from this morning's extraordinary hearing, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Perry: "Are you aware that a federal judge found that ICE violated the First and Fourth Amendments rights of peaceful protestors at Broadview?" She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops. Hamilton: You must defer to the president

As National Guard troops are set to be deployed in Chicago as soon as tomorrow, Mayor Brandon Johnson is live on "Chicago Tonight" at 5:30 to discuss the latest developments. Watch here: to.wttw.com/LiveStream

Chicago-area journalists and protesters are suing the Trump administration, claiming ICE agents have engaged in a “pattern of extreme brutality” they say is a “concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians” outside the agency’s Broadview processing facility.

FULL STORY: Federal prosecutors charged two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, with ramming a vehicle driven by a federal agent in Brighton Park on Saturday morning, sparking a heated confrontation between residents & federal agents. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed and briefly detained by federal agents inside a hospital on Friday while asking about a patient's ICE arrest warrant. Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.” https://to.wttw.com/3Kvoilz

Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of waging a “disinformation campaign” amid their continued use of chemical and less-lethal munitions on crowds outside the agency’s Broadview processing center. https://to.wttw.com/4mIC0yO

Broadview’s mayor decried the “relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets” by ICE agents on protesters outside a suburban processing facility. “In effect, you are making war on my community,” she wrote. "And it has to stop.” https://to.wttw.com/42T9wev

Officer Joseph Treacy was named in four lawsuits in the past six years that cost taxpayers $524,000, according to a recent analysis by WTTW News. He was one of 272 Chicago Police officers named in multiple misconduct cases since 2019. Here’s some background. 🧵 1/13 news.wttw.com/2025/09/23/r...

Chicago Stories: Legendary Blizzards premieres this Friday, September 26 at 8:00 pm on WTTW and streaming on the PBS app and at wttw.com/chicagostories #ChicagoStoriesWTTW

Robert Redford throws to Kerry Wood, 2011 Wrigley Field

Blizzards that brought the city to a halt. A murder case that remains unsolved. A governor's fall from power. Classic city foods that became famous. The magic of Marshall Field's. A new season of CHICAGO STORIES begins September 26. #ChicagoStoriesWTTW wttw.com/chicagostories

Three hundred million years ago, what’s now Illinois was covered by an inland sea teeming with aquatic life. The sea is long gone, but the life is still there, roughly 60 miles southwest of Chicago. https://to.wttw.com/4gh12DG

Locally foraged fungi — in all their fascinating, weird and beautiful-ugly forms — will take center stage Sunday at the Illinois Mycological Association’s annual mushroom show. to.wttw.com/3HxbH09

Gov. JB Pritzker vowed Monday to stop President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Chicago. “Mr. President, do not come to Chicago,” Pritzker said. “You are neither wanted here nor needed here.” to.wttw.com/4fZyZbO

Tonight at 5:30: A WTTW News special takes a look at policing in Chicago. We explore violence prevention efforts and the context around the city's crime trends.

Illinois prisons are seeing the highest amount of lockdowns since 2020. Downstate Menard Correctional Center has been on lockdown nearly every day since October 2023. I asked incarcerated people what it's like to be on lockdown: news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/w...

In 2023, a WTTW News investigation was the first to report his criminal record and how his criminal history was considered by CPS. Campoverde was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor in 2023, with the criminal case still ongoing. to.wttw.com/4oB9QYu

A CPS student filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the district of failing to adequately vet a security guard with a litany of past criminal cases who was later arrested on multiple charges of sexually assaulting the student. to.wttw.com/4m95gza

Semi-retirement plans: Former Ald. Walter Burnett will collect an annual city taxpayer-funded pension of $120,608 — and could also earn more than $310,000 at the same time as head of the Chicago Housing Authority. (with @heathercherone.bsky.social)

New: A woman shot with a Glock that had been stolen from CPD's Gresham District station and then used in a series of shootings has sued the city, saying the gun was stolen by cops and its theft covered up. One officer named (supervising sgt) alongside city + other unnamed officers. #chicago

Northwestern University announced Tuesday it has eliminated 425 positions across schools and units, about half of which are currently vacant. The cuts come as a federal funding freeze continues.

Chicago may have become virtually synonymous with speakeasies during prohibition, but that doesn’t mean the Windy City is lawless when it comes to drinking. WTTW News explains all of Chicago's alcohol laws. to.wttw.com/4kZnEch

📈 New: Since 2019, Chicago's police overtime spending has DOUBLED despite promises to rein it in. Crime dropped 7% in 2024, but overtime costs remained elevated. Are we paying more for better results or is it just poor planning? (w/ @heathercherone.bsky.social)

Where have all the butterflies been? The winged insects, in general, had a “really, really terrible” start to the season in May and June, a situation that’s only just now turning around, said Doug Taron, chief curator emeritus at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. to.wttw.com/3GFW6uE

NEW: The Trump administration restored more than $1 million in frozen anti-terrorism funds to Chicago after city lawyers sued, claiming the funds had been illegally withheld, Chicago officials told @wttw.bsky.social News.

A new story from @jaredrutecki.bsky.social aimed to answer this question: How did a former Chicago police officer fired for sexual misconduct involving a minor and placed on a do-not-hire list end up working for Chicago Public Schools? Here's what a look through CPS documents revealed.

Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in downtown Chicago and across the country Saturday in opposition to President Donald Trump’s administration. The day began in Chicago with a family-friendly event in the Jefferson Park neighborhood.

A day of "No Kings" anti-Trump protests kicked off this morning with a kid-friendly gathering in Jefferson Park. "A great learning experience on peaceful protest for our son.” news.wttw.com/2025/06/14/a...

The House narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut about $9.4 billion in spending on foreign aid programs, NPR, PBS as well as thousands of public radio and television stations around the country. The vote was 214-212. to.wttw.com/3TkqbT1

The Chicago White Sox have announced a plan for owner Jerry Reinsdorf to sell majority control of the team to minority owner Justin Ishbia — but not until 2029 at the earliest. to.wttw.com/4568VIv

NEW: Illinois State Police keeps a gang database. ICE has access to it. This, despite the state's TRUST Act prohibiting data sharing agreements between the two. news.wttw.com/2025/06/02/i...

The Trump administration's list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" includes the state of Illinois, what appears to be 96 out of the state's 102 counties, and the towns of Berwyn, Chicago, Evanston, "Oak Park Village," Skokie, St. Joseph and Urbana. www.dhs.gov/sanctuary-ju...

Lawmakers just released a bill overhauling Chicagoland public transit that would effectively replace the RTA and make CTA, Metra, and Pace focused on operations — but no word yet on much-needed revenues @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/05/28/l...

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood just announced on CNN she will not be running for Senate to replace Dick Durbin.