Caroline Kubzansky
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Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune,
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Caroline Kubzansky
Gregory Pratt
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NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trumpâs Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
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âDoesnât look goodâ: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/ice-agent-chicago-drunk-driving-charge/
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His face uncovered and wearing dress clothes in place of his military fatigues, CBP agent Paul Delgado strode to the front of a federal courtroom Wednesday morning to testify about the minutes preceding the arrest of a Lakeview comedy club manager.
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Immigration agents testify in hearing on arrest of Laugh Factory manager
Federal judge finds government met burden to charge Laugh Factory manager after agents make rare appearance in court.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/immigration-agents-testify-laugh-factory/
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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
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@lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
and Rebecca Johnson
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...
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Operation Midway Blitz linked to dip in 911 calls, especially in Little Village
The rate of 911 calls made in Chicago has dropped precipitously in the two months since the start of Operation Midway Blitz, a Tribune review of city data found, and nowhere is the decrease more prâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/911-calls-midway-blitz-little-village/?lctg=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_email=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f11%2f03%2f911-calls-midway-blitz-little-village%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-daywatch-nl&utm_content=curated
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In fact I have had it up to here with your west country talk and I do think it is going to rain today
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New Britain
YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas2wZO79RE
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Some tags from the last few weeks: Gangster Party People at 18th/May or so, 18th/Wood; Latin Kings from somewhere on 99th Street in Calumet Park
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Seen outside Kimball brown line stop following border patrol activity at Kedzie and Lawrence
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NEWS: Feds made another arrest in an OâHare parking lot that led to them tasering the guy they were trying to apprehend and a three-car crash. Mayor Brandon Johnson issued an EO barring fed enforcement from city property like ORD earlier this month.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/b...
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Border Patrol agents use taser and arrest man following crash in OâHare parking lot
Border Patrol agents conducting yet another raid on an OâHare parking lot for rideshare drivers Thursday evening tasered and arrested a man whom they accused of ramming their vehicle as he trâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/border-patrol-crash-ohare/
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A lawsuit just filed against DHS alleges that federal agents refused arrestees medical care or showers, called them racial slurs and "only gave them food and water for what they felt was good behavior.â Via Madeline Buckley +
@royalpratt.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/b...
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Inhumane conditions and medical neglect alleged at Broadview ICE detention center
A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed on Friday against immigration officials, alleged dirty and unsafe conditions at the federal holding facility in Broadview where they say arrestees are being waâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/broadview-ice-immigration-lawsuit/?lctg=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_email=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f10%2f31%2fbroadview-ice-immigration-lawsuit%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
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NEWS: Bovino won't have to make a daily court appearance. For now. DOJ motion argues that would hamper mission of "ensuring the Nationâs immigration laws are properly enforced by waylaying a senior executive official critical to that mission on a daily basis.â
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/b...
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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovinoâs daily report in federal court canceled by appeals court â for now
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino does not have to appear daily in court to brief a federal judge on the latest uses of force in âOperation MidwaâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/29/bovino-daily-report-federal-court-canceled/?lctg=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_email=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f10%2f29%2fbovino-daily-report-federal-court-canceled%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
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Border patrol in 3 pm traffic. 19th and Ashland.
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NEWS: Cmdr. Gregory Bovino has to appear in court daily at 6 p.m. to report on Border Patrol's enforcement activities. Directive follows multiple alleged violations of court order not to tear-gas bystanders, among other provisions. via
@jmetr22b.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/j...
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Judge orders Border Control Cmdr. Gregory Bovino to appear in court every day to report any immigration enforcement incidents
A federal judge was taking Border Control Cmdr. Gregory Bovino point by point through her temporary restraining order restricting the use of tear gas and other controversial tactics used by his ageâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/judge-to-question-bovino-tear-gas/
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"One man... came with a Mason jar with a goldfish inside and a dog collar and leash around the neck of the jar, and tried to convince her that his entry was an Afghan hound who was dressed as a goldfish." - Rick Kogan, giving us all a break from Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/c...
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Column: When the animals come out in their Halloween costumes
The 38th Annual Doggy and Kitty Halloween Party and Costume Parade held in the park to the east of the Museum of Contemporary Art saw hundreds of animals dress up for the occasion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/column-when-the-animals-come-out-in-their-halloween-costumes/?lctg=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_email=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f10%2f28%2fcolumn-when-the-animals-come-out-in-their-halloween-costumes%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-daywatch-nl&utm_content=curated
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A South Side drill rapper with close ties to Chicago musician Lil Durk was shot and killed in Little Village Saturday. via
@samjcharles.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/t...
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THF Bayzoo, associate of Lil Durk, killed in Little Village shooting
Eight years after he was acquitted of a murder charge, South Side drill rapper âTHF Bayzoo,â who had close ties to Chicago musician Lil Durk, was shot to death in Little Village over the weekend.âŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/thf-bayzoo-killed/?lctg=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_email=9433644BE5558422753AA4413A&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f10%2f27%2fthf-bayzoo-killed%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
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Caroline Kubzansky
Dan Vock
10 days ago
Gig workers and street vendors and day laborers hit by feds in Chicago immigration crackdown
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Gig workers and street vendors and day laborers hit by feds in Chicago immigration crackdown
Instead of targeting factories and businesses in large-scale raids, federal agents are arresting Chicagoans who work out in the open.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/day-laborers-street-vendors-immigration/
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In case you wanted to know what was going through the heads of some Chicago police as the feds throw tear gas and make arrests throughout the city, Jeremy Gorner and I have you covered here. What they have to say may surprise you.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/26/c...
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Chicago police find themselves in difficult spots as wave of federal immigration enforcement continues
On at least two occasions, CPD personnel responding to standoffs between neighbors and federal agents have found themselves tear-gassed alongside residents as agents react to thrown objects and shoâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/26/cpd-federal-immigration-enforcement/
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Seen at 21st and Damen.
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I am seven kinds of in love with Chicago
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Caroline Kubzansky
Violet Miller
19 days ago
ICE responded two days after I asked for a statement on Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle making county property âICE free zones.â Iâm not sure they know who SHE (a cis woman in her position for 15 years + 19 on Chi City Council) is. They use âheâ and âhisâ so itâs not a spelling error.
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MORE NEWS: Heavily redacted video footage released by CPD offers a brief window into the night that federal immigration agents stormed a South Shore apartment building as part of so-called "Operation Midway Blitz" W
@samjcharles.bsky.social
and Rebecca Johnson
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/s...
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Chicago police release redacted video of peripheral role in controversial South Shore immigration raid
Newly released â though heavily redacted â video footage released by Chicago police sheds new light on the arrest of a U.S. citizen the night that federal immigration agents stormed a troubled SoutâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/south-shore-raid-footage/
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A guy told federal agents parked in a McKinley Park alley outside his family's auto shop that they were "Nazi skinheads." He and others said they saw agents transferring arrestees between cars in the alley. Same morning as a raid on the Swap-O-Rama at 41st/Ashland.
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20 days ago
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Morning dispatch from Broadview. Photos by the indefatigable
@staceywescott.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/b...
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More arrests outside Broadview ICE center as protests continue
Illinois State Police arrested at least eight people in a scuffle with hundreds of protesters demonstrating Friday morning outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementâs Broadview processing câŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/broadview-ice-protests-arrests/
20 days ago
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ISP just arrested at least seven people including a woman with an accordion we they pushed protesters back down beach street. State cops in riot gear, sheriffs police and Broadview cops all on scene. People in fatigues closer to the building but canât tell if they are Feds
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Good morning from outside ICEâs Broadview, Ill. processing center, where the fence is down and a lot of concrete barricades are up. No protesters really yet â technically they are not allowed to start til 9 but weâll see how that holds up.
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Federal judge orders immigration agents to turn on any bodycams they may be wearing during interactions with the public in Chicago. Says she is "profoundly concernedâ that agents are her earlier order restricting use of tear gas on media and protesters.
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âConcernedâ judge orders ICE field director into court to address use of tear gas, requires agents to use body-worn cameras
A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday said she is âprofoundly concernedâ that immigration agents are violating her orders restricting the use of tear gas on media and protesters and ordered the fiâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/judge-orders-ice-field-director-into-court-tear-gas/
21 days ago
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As a rule I am more inclined toward the old
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
catalog over their newer stuff but have been really enjoying COLD AT NIGHT. "Let yourself go in the current Only rise and fall as the angles allow Finally make a break for the surface"
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the Mountain Goats - âCold at Nightâ (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by the Mountain Goats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm70IbkR1Y
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Caroline Kubzansky
Laura RodrĂguez Presa
22 days ago
DHS claims a âhigh-ranking Latin Kings memberâ from Chicago, solicited the murder of top Border Patrol chief. But at his indictment, there was no mention of gang ties. His lawyers & family say DHSâs narrative of Juan Espinoza Martinez, is false.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/c...
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Chicago man indicted for allegedly soliciting killing of Gregory Bovino, but without contention of gang involvement
A Chicago man has been indicted on charges he solicited the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino, but the bare-bones document makes no mention of previous allegations that he is aâŠ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/chicago-man-indicted-solicited-murder-border-patrol-bovino/
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Feds swept a parking lot of rideshare drivers near O'Hare last Friday. Read to the end.
@taliasoglin.bsky.social
(one of my best humans) on working people caught up in the story of the times
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/i...
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Feds target ride-share drivers at OâHare: âThey didnât focus on anybody who didnât look Mexicanâ
Last Friday, Border Patrol officers arrested 18 people at OâHare, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/ice-ohare-rideshare-drivers/
22 days ago
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Dispatch from this morning/afternoon in East Side, with
@samjcharles.bsky.social
and photos by Terrence A. James
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23 days ago
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Chaos at 105th Street and Avenue N. A couple bricks and possibly an egg got thrown at a squad of federal agents who were standing in the intersection. Two cars â a white SUV and a red one â got trucked out after a chase and a crash, per neighbors. At least three detained from this confrontation.
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....Driving along with your hand out squeezing the air, a meadowlark waiting on every post. Behind a shelterbelt of cedars, top-deep in hollyhocks, pollen and bees, a pickup kicks its fenders off and settles back to read the clouds. "So This is Nebraska"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42625/...
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So This Is Nebraska
You feel like that; you feel like letting your tires go flat, like letting the mice build a nest in your muffler, like being no more than a truck in the weeds, clucking with chickens or sticky with ho...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42625/so-this-is-nebraska
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Went to church and a bunch of other places with Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson as she navigates an intense chapter in the life of the village and the country as a whole.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/r...
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Refusing âa position of fear,â Broadviewâs mayor deals with ICE and a national spotlight
Broadview, the 2.2 square-mile, majority-Black village, where Katrina Thompson is in her third term as mayor, has become the locus of what she sees as both a spiritual fight and a political battle.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/refusing-position-of-fear-broadviews-mayor-deals-with-ice-and-a-national-spotlight/
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VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: New Dem Atlas
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27 days ago
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âWho knows what tomorrow may bring⊠tomorrow the feds may be on unicycles.â - a transit oriented friend as we are (trying) to make plans in a rapidly changing news landscape
28 days ago
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Journalism is so glamorous pt infinity: sitting in the grass in an industrial corridor writing and peering around for national guard troops
28 days ago
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A man came home from work yesterday to find his roommate dead and tied up in their Bridgeport apartment following an apparent burglary, per a police report. No firm ID yet on the victim.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/a...
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Man found dead, tied up in apparent burglary in Bridgeport: report
A Bridgeport man came home from work Tuesday to find his roommate dead and tied up in their shared apartment after an apparent burglary, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/apparent-burglary-bridgeport-report/
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Standing room only for the Broadview, IL village board meeting this evening. Like itâs 2022 again â follow along, yes?
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đPeter Nickeas đ đ»
about 1 month ago
Chaos in Brighton Park. This is representative of the amount / direction of pepper and smoke sent into the neighborhood, in this case, for no reason I can discern other than because they were leaving. Feds had a clear path out in a different direction, and residents were vocal but not violent here.
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Kedzie and Pershing. 3 p.m. Feds v. Protesting civilians
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Kedzie and Pershing. 3 p.m. Feds v. Protesting civilians
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Greg Bovino in the middle of this arrest. I have counted six so far. Agents and protesters are standing off at the intersection with ISP and other agencies scattered around. ISP masking up.
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Broadview, 9:18 a.m.
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Broadview, 7:25 a.m. ISP on scene in riot gear
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Hebrew prayer on the grass
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Broadview, 7:10 a.m. Group just roughly doubled in size
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Two Broadview public works trucks are parked on the sidewalk. People are marching around them.
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Broadview, 6:40 a.m.
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I look up and itâs October
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