Teacher claims ICE agents used tear gas near Chicago elementary school
Mayor Brandon Johnson and school officials are responding after a teacher reported seeing ICE agents deploy chemical irritants outside a Chicago elementary school.
Chicago Reacts to News Ice Agents Plan to Raid the City’s Famous Marathon
Will ICE agents be planning raids at the Chicago Marathon? Speculation is running wild after rumors spread online about the October 2025 run.
Threat of ICE raids shadows every shift in Chicago’s food warehouses
This story is supported by funding from the Chicago Region Food Systems Fund. Each day before sunrise, David Huerta checks his rearview mirror for immigration enforcement agents as he drives through the dark to a warehouse in a southwest Chicago suburb. Once he’s clocked in, he peers periodically through the windows...
Violent Aurora kidnapping suspect captured in Chicago, now in local jail
AURORA | The final suspect sought in what police say was a violent kidnapping that terrorized two Venezuelan immigrants at a troubled northwest Aurora apartment complex has been returned to Colorado to face charges, police said Thursday. Aurora police said Jorman Jose Cuba-Zabala, 26, of Venezuela, was arrested April...
Expert weighs in on rising tensions amid Chicago ICE and National Guard protests
Security expert Michael Verden discusses the growing unrest surrounding ICE raids, how cities can prepare for potential violence, and what protesters should know to stay safe.
Mother of woman among 4 killed after 18 shot in River North mass shooting...
The ABC7 I-Team heard exclusively from the mother of a young woman who was killed in a River North mass shooting back in July.
Teen boy found shot to death in Washington Park ID’d: officials
Authorities have identified the 16-year-old boy found shot to death Wednesday morning on Chicago's South Side.
Suburban man charged in string of assaults across Chicago, police say
CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man accused of attacking women, a transit worker and even a police officer is now behind bars, Chicago police said. Derek Rucker, 37, of Blue Island, faces three felony counts of aggravated battery to a transit employee or passenger, two felony counts of aggravated battery in a public...
Grand jury indicts woman shot by federal agents in Brighton Park
A grand jury has indicted a woman shot by federal agents in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood after allegedly ramming agents carrying out immigration operations last weekend.
ICE Raids Are Traumatizing Students in Chicago
Some students in Chicago aren’t going to school. Not because they don’t want to learn, but because weeks of aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids — featuring masked, heavily-armed agents in unmarked cars, and a nighttime, commando-style helicopter raid — have left them too afraid to attend class,...
