After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

After first saying he was a “ranking member” of the Latin Kings …

Listening to coverage of the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis on Minnesota Public Radio - and I'll be joining MPR in a few minutes to talk about federal commander Greg Bovino, who was in Chicago for weeks and now is in Minneapolis ... You can listen at www.mpr.org

After what's happened repeatedly in Chicago during "Operation Midway Blitz," not at all surprised that the official, DHS version of today's fatal ICE shooting is being denied by witnesses - and the mayor of Minneapolis now

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

We have apparently entered the era of talking loudly and carrying a big stick

More than 2 1/2 years after conviction, Michael McClain is in custody of the Bureau of Prisons, having been ordered to report Monday. The longtime ally of ex-IL House Speaker Mike Madigan was sentenced to 2 years for conspiracy. Background: chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-corr...

Chicago resisted. Protests came with a price. Bruises from pepper balls and fits of sickness from the tear gas. But also the shattering of illusions and loss of faith that what they witnessed could not happen in America. It did and is happening in America www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

She was deported to Mexico. Her husband, who is from El Salvador, is in detention. They were arrested and separated during Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago just eight days after they got married. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Covered a fair number of these local newsmakers over the years, including Tom Durkin, Jim Edgar, Lori Healey, George Ryan and Jeff Tobolski. Worked with the two brilliant, kind Bruces: Dold and Sagan. Was covered myself by one: the late media critic Mike Miner www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

#JournalismIsNotACrime reason.com/2025/12/26/j...

This is bonkers. Negatively affecting school districts in suburban Cook County also 💸💸💸 www.wbez.org/education/20...

U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump, won't lift block on National Guard deployment in Illinois DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration’s request to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois at this time, over the dissenting votes of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...

Censorship based on politics is abhorrent — but let’s think also about the survivors who expended the enormous emotional labor and bravery to go public with their stories … and trusted CBS/60 Minutes to be their conduit

Out today — “Becoming Bovino” - — a podcast from @wbez.org and the @chicago.suntimes.com. It’s the story behind the suddenly ubiquitous face of Trump’s deportation campaign in Chicago, LA, Charlotte, New Orleans and beyond www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Coming up at 10AM on @wbez.org 91.5FM — and wherever you listen to podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

The Sun-Times Sports Sunday cover, featuring the Bears, whose miracle finish stuns the Packers in overtime, by @patfinley.bsky.social. trib.al/C3qjdju

DJ Moore, with absolutely nothing left. Game-winner.

An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files. n.pr/4pO8hXB

Arrivederci, Chicago blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/19/b...

After a couple days with @chicago.suntimes.com photojournalists, tracking Greg Bovino's roving band of heavily armed Border Patrol agents, I have even deeper appreciation for this amazing work they've been doing for months chicago.suntimes.com/photography/...

It seems easy to say you run a low-cost model for a public school when you don't actually serve all the kids who come through the doors, especially those with special needs

More Chicago charter school woes - detailed here this time by @sskedreporter.bsky.social of @wbez.org and @mannycam.bsky.social of @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Fue un placer estar con los colegas de Telemundo Chicago ayer hablando sobre el comandante de Patrulla Fronteriza — el mediático Greg Bovino. Vean la entrevista acá www.telemundochicago.com/video/notici...

Paul Vallas — the perennial candidate who normally loves to talk — has no comment on this one www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/j...

With much of the attention on the Bovino/Biss confrontation, Berwyn Cicero RR is now reporting feds took *twelve* people from their area today: instagram.com/p/DSYSxvakp4T

Border Patrol called cops on this man and claimed he was trying to ram them. The man denied it to CPD and in a Tribune interview. He was let go. The livestream video doesn’t show the man attempting to ram anyone on LSD

The Border Patrol’s “commander at large” himself, Greg Bovino, steps between me and an Indian immigrant who was detained in the O’Hare rideshare lot today and was telling me his story. Bovino then told his agents, “Keep him away.” Photo by the peerless @ashleerezin.bsky.social

Border Patrol's Greg Bovino walked away when I asked him today if it were hypocritical to talk about foreigners with DUIs when there's a history of that in his family. Bovino's dad went to prison after killing a woman while driving drunk - as we detailed in this profile www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Agents with Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino shouted at a SE Asian woman walking outside Costco in Mt. Prospect, IL today. The woman said in a flawless Midwestern accent, “They just asked me if I’m American. What the fuck?” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Common misconception, but practically everyone we saw today all over the north suburbs and at O’Hare was actually border patrol just like their commander, Greg Bovino, who was on the scene at the airport rideshare lot and at various big box store parking lots from Evanston to Mount Prospect

Border patrol is forcing rideshare drivers at the O’Hare lot to show proof of citizenship before they can exit the lot and pick up rides at the airport

An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”

Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country

Bovino back in a familiar hunting ground – the Uber lot at O’Hare.

Bovino's caravan just arrived in Cicero again.

Back in town, Bovino tells @blockclubchi.bsky.social: “It’s going to be a merry Christmas in Chicago. We’re going to enforce immigration law” blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/16/b...

As brash Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino suddenly returns to Chicago, check out our deep-dive profile of him that ran in the @chicago.suntimes.com just a couple days ago chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Nuestro reportaje de investigación sobre Greg Bovino — comandante de la campaña de deportaciones de Trump en Chicago y otras ciudades. Sus raices inmigrantes, su papa que mató alguien mientras manejaba borracho y muchisimo mas chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/...

I knew he made many classic movies but I'll always remember Reiner for his "All In The Family" role Archie Bunker's son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic, the peace-loving foil of the bigoted New Yorker Archie and a Polish-American from Chicago

Here's where to read the whole story by @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social and me, gorgeous photos by Anthony Vazquez and Candace Dane Chambers: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Podcast coming soon on @wbez.org, with many of the voices featured in this story

Terrific investigation into Greg Bovino's roots. Lots of interesting details, including: "Here’s how the Bovinos managed to get around the new quotas that limited how many Italians and others deemed to be “undesirables” could end up in the United States." chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Catholic Charities aids migrants along the border, including the California sector where Greg Bovino worked before LA, Chicago, etc. When I went to SoCal last week to report a story on Bovino, the local Catholic Charities office didn’t return calls. Understandable, given this pressure from DHS…

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

This is absolutely fantastic journalism (WP & NYT should be ashamed it’s not them). You absolutely must read it. The amount of stunners in here is insane. Bovino’s father the son of Italian immigrants of chain migration killed and injured someone drunk driving which led to divorce.

The whole piece is worthwhile—and talks about Bovino’s family’s immigrant roots. Bravo, @chicago.suntimes.com

Whew, this archival clipping about Greg Bovino’s father