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Chicago Public Schools Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova, right, walks out of Hamline Elementary School on Jan. 24, 2025, to talk to reporters. CPS announced they blocked federal immigration officers from going into the school earlier in the day, but later found it was Secret Service agents investigating a threat. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say

January 25, 2025 at 7:56 a.m.

Chicago Public Schools prevented federal officers from from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according to school officials.

Una estudiante pasea con su madre por el Southwest Side de Chicago el 16 de enero de 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

¿Cómo afectará la promesa de deportación masiva de Donald Trump a mi comunidad y a mi hijo en las escuelas de CPS?

January 23, 2025 at 11:02 a.m.

Chicago, como ciudad santuario, es desde hace tiempo un lugar de acogida para los inmigrantes. Y las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago han hecho de este mensaje una parte esencial de...

An Associated Press headline about the Trump administration's newest immigration policies is displayed on information screens at UIC Student Center East on Jan. 22, 2025. UIC faculty and staff are being instructed to contact campus police if federal immigration officials attempt to enter classrooms and student-populated buildings to inquire about citizenship or immigration status. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Chicago schools, churches and hospitals vow to protect migrants in US illegally after Trump lifts ban that limited immigration arrests in safe spaces

January 23, 2025 at 10:54 a.m.

A day after Donald Trump threw out policies that limited immigration arrests at sensitive locations, medical staff, educators and faith leaders scrambled to come up with plans to protect Chicago’s...

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