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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a new executive order, establishing ICE-free zones on city property.

There is growing evidence that city officials knew, or should have known, about dangerous living conditions inside a South Shore apartment building long before federal immigration agents raided it last week. Over the weekend, CWBChicago reported that social media videos posted roughly three weeks before the raid...

Two men who killed a 60-year-old man in an expressway shooting nearly four years ago while they were both on pretrial release for felony gun cases have pleaded guilty. Joshua Concepcion, 22, and Alexis Perez, 20, were sentenced to 15 years and 12 years, respectively, according to court records. Around...

Chaos erupted on a busy street in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood on Friday when a federal agent, reportedly from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), launched a tear gas canister from an SUV outside the Rico Fresh grocery store and in proximity to Funston Elementary School, as bystanders and children were...

Homeowners in some of Chicago's most neglected neighborhoods are now bracing for tax hikes, amid fresh interest from investors.

Karen Dobner is more determined than ever to protest ICE’s presence in the Chicago area. On Oct. 4, the Oswego resident went to the designated protest area outside the gate of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Broadview for the first time to express her outrage at the agency’s action.

At least 13 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. CBS News reported the first two fatal shootings occurred around 7:45 p.m. Friday. After being alerted that someone had been shot, police came to “the 900 block of West 85th Street” and found a man in...

A U.S. citizen was shot Saturday on Chicago ’s South Side after Border Patrol agents said they were “rammed by 10 cars” and became “boxed” in during a confrontation in the Broadview section of the city. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a news release that federal agents...

While Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.’s birthday is Wednesday, October 8, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition will celebrate his 84th birthday on Saturday, October 4, during the weekly PUSH broadcast with the theme, “From Protest to Progress – Protecting Chicago and the World.”. Mayor Brandon Johnson is scheduled...

(The Center Square) – Chicago taxpayers now face unfunded debt from its municipal, laborers, police, fire and teachers’ pensions that exceed the overall debt of at least 44 states. New Equable Institute data shows city taxpayers now face unfunded debt from its municipal, laborers, police, fire and teachers’ pension...