FULL STORY: President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to allow him to immediately deploy 700 National Guard troops into Chicago. WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2025/10/17/tru…

🧵Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

No Kings Rally in Edgewater

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few mins ago & the end of the protest is nowhere in sight Block Club Chicago

His houseboat anchored off Navy Pier was hard to miss this summer. So this is the story of Matt Jonkman: Army vet, cybersecurity inventor who made millions, survived a near-fatal plane crash and retired young to a boat on Chicago's most famous water.⬇️ blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/man…

Chicago has filed 8 lawsuits so far against the Trump admin in its second term. That includes one today against new Department of Homeland Security rules that could cut $10M in counterterrorism + disaster funding if city doesn't axe diversity programs. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/cit…

A Chicago high schooler had just returned from chemotherapy. Then ICE arrested her father. blockclubchi.co/4njEhR7

"My daughter would not want to be associated with this." The mother of Katie Abraham speaks out about how her daughter's tragic death has been used as a justification for "Operation Midway Blitz." chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/opi…

"Peaceful protests of government actions are constitutionally protected speech deserving of the highest protection, not intimidation by the military," former four-star admirals and generals wrote in an amicus brief supporting the state of Illinois.

It's called journalism.

UPDATE: Federal agents detained at least 7 people — including 2 U.S. citizens — and pepper-sprayed a man near the Little Village/Cicero border, officials said. blockclubchi.co/3WOuS9t

Attorney Scott Sakiyama was the spokesman for Paul Ivery, a cafeteria worker who feds quickly dropped charges against related to protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview. “He’s encouraging people to continue to peacefully protest,” Sakiyama said at the time.

Among millions in federal contracts for immigration enforcement in the Chicago area: "In September, Southwest Side company Burhani Enterprises, which is minority owned, was awarded $33,470 for a pizza oven and flat top griddle by Border Patrol."

JUST IN: Attorneys are alleging Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino violated a federal judge’s restraining order when he personally threw tear gas canisters during an immigration enforcement action in Chicago’s Little Village this morning They included this still image: