The Northwest Side Rapid Response network reported ICE at Home Depot at Armitage and Cicero. They are also describing a new ICE tactic of using Mexican flags on their car hood. I have seen a few different posts describing ICE cars with Mexican flags.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

ICE agents at Chicago suburban base fire tear gas and rubber pellets, hitting @chicago.suntimes.com photojournalist chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn’t aiming at ground and firing at people’s heads again.

UPDATE🚨 An immigration board issued a final removal order last night for journalist Mario Guevara. He could be deported any moment. We renew our demand for his immediate release. #FreeMario

For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting. He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job. We demand his immediate release. freedomformario.com

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

A 1st Amendment four-alarm fire: The United States is trying to deport a longtime Atlanta journalist who was arrested while reporting at a No Kings protest. @pressfreedom.bsky.social says ICE is detaining & targeting him for deportation "in direct retaliation" for his reporting on immigration.

I stand with my fellow journalists being targeted for doing their jobs. I hope media companies will do everything in their power to support their employees, especially those who are most vulnerable to attacks. freedom.press/issues/nonci...

Demonstrators were shot with more pepper balls and rubber bullets Monday at ICE’s Broadview facility. “The fact that they’re shooting me is getting me more worked up. … Every day off I’ll make sure I’m out here.” “It’s like igniting a fire.” Story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Here in Broadview outside the ICE facility, tall fencing has gone up and Broadview Police have Beach Street blocked off to traffic with barricades from Cook County EMRS. #OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Photos from ICE’s facility in Broadview yesterday

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Protesters briefly stop a vehicle and make it turn around, agents step out and fire a pepper balls while another shoved them from in front of the vehicle.

We're collecting reports of protester injuries at Broadview last night. If you were hurt and would like to share, please shoot us a quick description of how. Anonymity protected. Signal: unraveled.66

ICE agents’ crackdown on protesters outside of Chicago escalated tonight with flash bangs and pepper bullets. I was on the ground this evening for @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/i...

ICE is violating article the U.N.'s "Mandela" rules for the minimum treatment of prisoners: "Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs...detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior."

“This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations,” we told @kenbensinger.bsky.social “The government cannot prohibit journalists from public information merely by claiming it’s a secret or even a national security threat.”

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Gas canisters launched directly into crowd; pandemonium again.

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social

(Taps Hugo Black opinion) “The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.”

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

A federal judge threw out President Trump’s defamation suit against The NYT calling it “improper and impermissible” “A complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective,” Judge Merryday wrote. “Not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

at least twice now, this federal agent has come out of the broadview ice facility with his sidearm drawn. last friday, an ice agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop nearby in franklin park, illinois.

Thirty-one journalists and media workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a report released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

federal agents are getting increasingly violent as the morning goes on and the crowd of protesters outside the broadview ice facility grows. i’ve seen multiple people pushed and thrown to the ground. dhs is now playing a dispersal order warning of arrests and the use of chemical munitions.

in wheaton, illinois, this morning— it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store. multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

The TRiiBE is collaborating with indie investigative newsroom @unraveledpress.com and alt-weekly @chicagoreader.com to publish reports about the increased enforcement and presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents. thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...

WHAT THE HELL

“The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.” — Justice Hugo Black, 1971

The Bears gave up one point for every minute it takes to drive from Soldier Field to Arlington Heights

I often think about how the Tribune credulously reported Hanrahan's account of the assassination of Fred Hampton, only to be debunked the next day by a Sun-Times reporter who visited the scene. This should be taught in every J-chool as illustrative of how to cover police statements about shootings

Good morning, Chicago

NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com

EXCLUSIVE: DHS, ICE and CBP agents — and possibly National Guard troops — would operate from a suburban naval base for much of next month as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to target Chicago, per an email from Navy leadership obtained by CST. They'd be at Naval Station Great Lakes Sept. 2-30.

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press. “While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

“With Gaza closed to international journalists, this new campaign has created a pretext to eliminate the remaining journalists with the platform to bear witness and terrify anyone brave enough to attempt to take the place of the fallen.”

Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from @eddiekimx.bsky.social here: sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-f...

NEW: In what appears to be one of the largest expansions of surveillance in IL history, we found hundreds of new Flock license plate readers—all paid for by AG Kwame Raoul's office in the last 3 years. Issues with Flock Safety's data sharing practices are mounting. Will our sanctuary status hold?

The Adams County Sheriff has been cooperating with ICE, despite Illinois' sanctuary laws prohibiting so. As a result, at least two men have been deported. news.wttw.com/2025/08/15/a...

In 2011, a Chicago officer pulled a woman over just to get her phone number, then called or texted her nearly 30 times. Between 2017 and 2019, he was reported for sexual misconduct three more times before he was finally arrested. (Published May w/ @invisible.institute)

I wrote about the Chicago House Music Festival, my favorite of DCASE’s big four legacy music fests