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CHICAGO - Federal immigration officials are revealing new details about several raids that took place across Chicago this week. The enforcement activities are part of Operation Midway Blitz, which launched across the city in early September and remains underway. Now, officials with the Department of Homeland Security...

The Chicago Housing Authority is suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over the loss of federal grant funding that amounts to over 13 percent of the agency’s budget. According to an article by Ryan Kushner in Smart Cities Dive, the lawsuit focuses primarily on Operating Subsidy...

Oswego Police have arrested Darryl Lee Jr., a 19-year-old from Kankakee, for a stabbing spree inside a Chick-fil-A in suburban Chicago, resulting in the death of a delivery driver and injuries to a maintenance worker, as reported by NBC Chicago. The incident, which occurred at about 5 a.m. Wednesday morning unfolded...

A woman who was punched in the head in a random attack in Chicago five months ago – one of several women who are victims of similar attacks – is coming forward in hopes of preventing more assaults.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued an arrest detainer for Leyter Jeferson Arauz-Medina, a Nicaraguan national accused of raping a 54-year-old woman in Chicago on August 31, 2025. Authorities state that Arauz-Medina entered the United States near Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 17, 2024, and was...

A 20-year-old man is the latest to be charged in a harrowing Red Line kidnapping and robbery that prosecutors say turned an ordinary train ride for a DePaul University student into a crosstown nightmare of death threats and extortion. Keyonte Love was charged this week with aggravated kidnapping for ransom...

A crumbling rail overpass in Back of the Yards was the site of a violent riot that erupted during the Pullman strike of 1894, and also where a headless horseman has reportedly been spotted.

A large group of pro-migrant rioters attacked a contingent of ICE officers on Thursday by boxing them in with a truck, firing heavy duty fireworks at them, and throwing rocks, according to reports. But the Department of Homeland Security warned that the increasingly violent tactics by protesters in Chicago won’t...

A high school student has been found safe after going missing last week, Chicago police said.

Federal immigration agents were seen deploying teargas during operations in Lakeview, a wealthy Chicago neighborhood. A video circulating on social media on Friday afternoon showed an agent rolling a teargas canister out of a vehicle window as it backed away from onlookers. Also Read: It really is hard to see how we...