Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been lying for more than a year about its authority to arrest people when they show up to their routine immigration court hearings, according to a letter the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York prospect.org/2026/03/25/i...

A Chicago federal judge ruled today the Trump administration must temporarily unfreeze almost $2 billion in federal funds for the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red Line Extension project. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/24/c... @taliasoglin.bsky.social reports

A Chicago federal judge has barred the government from revoking work authorization for an ex-Hanover Park cop arrested by ICE, calling the officer "a public servant who has not been shown to present any threat to the community" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/23/j... @tesskenny.bsky.social reports

A financial analyst from Chicago has been hit with federal charges alleging he threatened on social media to “shoot up a synagogue” and posted the purported U.S. addresses of relatives of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/23/m...

JUST IN: Timothy Holmes, 31, of Chicago, has been arrested in Florida on federal charges alleging he threatened on social media to "shoot up a synagogue" and posted the U.S. addresses of relatives of an Israeli official. Story tk

Former Dolton administrator Keith Freeman pleads guilty to bankruptcy and COVID-19 loan fraud and is cooperating with federal investigators. His former boss, Tiffany Henyard, has not been charged www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/19/f...

Chicago police questioning man in connection to fire that killed firefighter Michael Altman as CFD announces funeral www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/18/c... @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @samjcharles.bsky.social report

WATCH: Police body-cam footage now in the public court record captured parts of a Sept. 26, 2025 incident outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview that led to conspiracy charges against a group of Democratic candidates and protesters: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY0u...

“I’m humbly grateful. My constituents saw through the mess the feds tried to put me in.” State Sen. Emil Jones III, who faced federal corruption charges, wins Democratic nomination for his South Side seat www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/i...

Attorneys in the "Broadview 6 (minus 2)" case say federal prosecutors have elevated misdemeanor property damage allegations into sweeping conspiracy claims that attempt to criminalize fundamental free speech and assembly rights Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/16/a...

UST IN: In the latest filing in the Broadview 6 case, defense attorneys say the conspiracy charge should be dismissed on First Amendment grounds. Can simply being with others at a protest be a criminal conspiracy?

“Put simply, the defendants, the Court, and the public deserve an answer as to whether this prosecution was brought for unconstitutional retaliatory and/or selective reasons" "Broadview 6" attorneys seek White House communications Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/13/b...

JUST IN: Attys in the "Broadview 6" conspiracy case are demanding production of any communications from top Trump administration officials-including chief of staff Susie Wiles-to prosecutors that might show they influenced the bringing of charges background: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/12/b...

The campaign manager for Kat Abughazaleh says they welcome the news. and will keep fighting: "There was never a conspiracy in the first place. The fact that these charges are now being dropped only underscores what we have said from the beginning: this political prosecution that targets dissent.”

Read this story by the Tribune’s @tesskenny.bsky.social about how Joselyn Walsh, a garden store worker and singer who didn’t know her alleged co-conspirators, found herself under indictment www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/21/b...

///BREAKING/// Federal prosecutors in Chicago have moved to drop charges against two of the "Broadview Six" protesters -- Catherine Sharp and Joselyn Walsh -- accused of conspiring to damage an ICE agent's vehicle last fall.

A Skokie woman said ICE detained her for nearly 48 hours after landing at O’Hare. But Tribune reporters @aliceyin.bsky.social @taliasoglin.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social have found big holes in her account — and problems in her past. Read this: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/11/o...

Former Portage, Indiana Mayor James Snyder has been sentenced to probation for tax fraud — the latest in a decadelong legal saga that landed before the Supreme Court and helped redefine a key federal bribery statute www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/f...

“You suck! I bust my ass for 13 years and don’t have like she gets without working for it!!! You gave her kids, a villa, now fancy cars!!??” Suburban COVID fraudster got angry text from American wife about buying Mercedes, luxury home for 2nd wife in Palestine www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/s...

“He reached out the window and waved his arm and hit the marshal on the shoulder. I’m not claiming there was a great deal of force." An Operation Midway Blitz defendant charged with assaulting a federal officer got a deferred prosecution deal today. story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/m...

JUST IN: The U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is entering into a deferred prosecution agreement with another Operation Midway Blitz defendant, 19-year-old Oscar Jesus Rosales Vergara, who was charged with a misdemeanor count of assaulting a deputy US Marshal in Hazel Crest on Sept. 30.

NEW: A suburban Chicago man has been charged with sending threatening letters last year to Trump-appointed judges Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas and Aileen Cannon of Florida. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/09/l...

NEW: Henry Cordova Jaya was arrested during Operation Midway Blitz and spent months in custody before the federal government admitted he'd been unlawfully detained and promised a federal judge they'd release him. Then he was sent back to Ecuador anyway. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/09/c...

My alma mater. What a season…let’s keep it going, boys!

Ex-ComEd lobbyist John Hooker, 77, has been released to a halfway house in Chicago after serving about 5 months of his 18-month sentence in federal prison. He's the first of the "ComEd Four" to be released. background: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/j...

JUST IN: The 7th Circuit has vacated District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order in the case that led to use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents in Chicago, calling it "constitutionally suspect." It essentially treats the ruling as if it never existed, rather than just a dismissal.

"Spreading of lies" "An incompetent leader" "She will not be missed in Chicago." "Don't let the door hit you on the way out" Illinois officials cheer Kristi Noem’s ouster at Homeland Security: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/t...

Marimar Martinez's lawyer, Chris Parente: "We are pleased that there is still some level of accountability remaining for our Government officials who blindly push out false narratives without any due diligence or investigation of the truth."

///BREAKING/// President Donald Trump says he’s replacing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/t...

Kristi Noem is out as DHS secretary

Marimar Martinez says says it's "even worse" if Noem truly does not know about her shooting "She's the leader of DHS and one of her agents attempted to kill me, a U.S. citizen on the streets of Chicago. It was reported in every national news outlet for months. Does she not read the newspaper?"

NEW: With Marimar Martinez standing right behind her, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told the Senate Judiciary Committee she was not “familiar with the details” of Martinez’s shooting by Border Patrol in Chicago and unaware whether the agent was still on duty. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/03/d...

An image of Chicago woman Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by a Border Patrol agent in October, and Renee Good and Alex Pretti, killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis, is held up as Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where Kristi Noem will testify

NEW: A reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted on federal charges in Chicago alleging he ran security and helped the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman-Loera smuggle and distribute large quantities of narcotics into the U.S. www.chicagotribune.com?p=33187251&p...

A day laborer arrested while sitting at a CTA bus stop; an immigrant with bad knees who agents said tried to run from them, an Amazon driver pulled over in Glenview; two men arrested in a raid in South Shore. All deemed illegal arrests by a federal judge today www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/t...

Judge Jeffrey Cummings has found dozens more Midway Blitz targets were arrested without probable cause and orders them released on their own recognizance and without having to post bond. This should happen by Thursday, March 5, he says

JUST IN: A federal judge has found that immigration agents have no probable cause to detain two people arrested in an infamous raid on a building in Chicago's the South Shore neighborhood in September. Judge Cummings is still reading his ruling background: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...

Proud to be sharing this award with my fantastic colleagues @royalpratt.bsky.social @andrew-carter.bsky.social @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social @ckubzansky.bsky.social Thanks @newhousesu.bsky.social and to the entire Tribune newsroom for its immigration coverage newhouse.syracuse.edu/news/the-was...

The feds say they plan to narrow conspiracy allegations and review “newly unearthed” evidence in the “Broadview Six” case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to block and damage an immigration agent’s vehicle. Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/b...

Next on the federal court docket today: A hearing in the 'Broadview Six' immigration protest case, the first since the Tribune reported the lead prosecutor was leaving for an assignment in Washington DC and will miss the high-profile trial Background: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/23/p...

Tommy Schaefer was led into a Chicago federal courtroom today, dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and shackled at the ankles. He blew a kiss to his mother and walked with a slight limp up to the lectern, where he plead not guilty. He faces up to life in prison. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/t...

Tommy Schaefer left Chicago on a flight to sunny Bali nearly 12 years ago. He returned this week in FBI custody, charged with murder conspiracy in the bludgeoning death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack. He will appear momentarily in a Chicago federal courtroom www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/24/m...

UPDATE: The U.S. attorney's office has confirmed Tommy Schaefer, the ex-boyfriend of Heather Mack, was taken into FBI custody mid-flight from Indonesia and landed at O'Hare airport at 8 a.m. He'll be in a federal courtroom in Chicago on Thursday www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/24/m...

UPDATE: The U.S. attorney's office has confirmed Tommy Schaefer, the ex-boyfriend of Heather Mack, was taken into FBI custody mid-flight from Indonesia and landed at O'Hare airport at 8 a.m. He'll be in a federal courtroom in Chicago on Thursday www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/24/m...

JUST IN: After more than a decade in prison overseas, Tommy Schaefer, the ex-boyfriend of Heather Mack, is being flown to Chicago to face charges stemming from the notorious 2014 killing of Mack's mother in Bali www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/24/m...

Accused CPD cop Richard Rodriguez was whisked away in the middle of a court-ordered deposition Friday to be stripped of his police powers -- and he didn't come back. "This was - to put it mildly -- an unusual development" the plaintiff's lawyer wrote. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/23/c...

NEW: The lead prosecutor in the politically charged "Broadview Six" case is leaving the office for a temporary detail with the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington D.C. and will miss the upcoming trial www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/23/p...

A defense motion in the “Broadview 6” case today says body cam footage from the scene shows Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh move away from the agents’s vehicle she was allegedly impeding, grab a megaphone and tell the crowd “that’s private property back there- come back.”

NEW: In a trial where ex-CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara took the 5th, a federal jury has found Guevara coerced a confession and withheld evidence in a 1988 murder case The jury went way under the plaintiff's $40 million ask, though, awarding just $750,000 www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/20/j...

UPDATE: A federal prosecutor says they now expect ex-Loretto Hospital exec Anosh Ahmed to be extradited from Serbia to Chicago to face fraud charges. It could take months, or he could waive the process if Serbian prison isn't to his liking. Background: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/28/f...