Immigration news in Chicago

FILE – The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website, used to locate someone in immigration detention, is displayed on Sept. 21, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Rachel Leathe, File)

Lawsuit seeks to block ICE from hiding locations of detainees with final removal orders

By Ryan J. Foley

October 28, 2026 at 12:07 p.m.

Groups that provide legal services to immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the...

Hammond City Hall is located at Calumet Avenue and Highland Street. (Joe Puchek / Post-Tribune)

Hammond council urged to protect residents targeted by ICE

By Jim Masters

October 27, 2026 at 3:55 p.m.

Federal immigration enforcement agents are arresting people on the streets of Northwest Indiana and their...

FILE – A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Documents support claim ICE has detained a mentally ill US citizen since January, AP investigation shows

By Ryan J. Foley

October 27, 2026 at 8:32 a.m.

For nearly a year, immigration authorities have detained and sought to deport a mentally ill...

FILE – A poster of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a man killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is displayed among flowers and tributes at a makeshift memorial in Biddeford, Maine, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Congresswoman says target of ICE operation in fatal Maine shooting wasn’t up for removal

By Patrick Whittle

August 18, 2026 at 4:23 p.m.

The person Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted in Maine last month when an officer...

San Diego Padres minor-league coach Oswaldo Pirela, a Venezuela native, is detained by ICE

By Laura Turbay

August 18, 2026 at 3:21 p.m.

A former professional baseball player from Venezuela working for the San Diego Padres organization was...

A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests

By Ryan J. Foley

August 17, 2026 at 5:17 p.m.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers...

Jane Ruby, president of the League of Women Voters of Chicago, stands next to window with signs against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations at a cafe in the 2300 block of North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago on Aug. 14, 2026. Ruby is a lead organizer in a campaign urging City Council members to take a pledge, agreeing not to accept campaign money from companies allegedly tied to federal immigration crackdowns. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

‘ICE Out’ pledge divides Chicago aldermen amid campaign finance reform push

By Jake Sheridan

August 17, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

An effort to get Chicago aldermen to reject campaign cash from 12 companies allegedly tied...

Families arrive for a court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on July 31, 2026, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America/TNS)

Court ruling narrows pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients

By Tribune News Service

August 14, 2026 at 8:04 p.m.

The Trump administration has largely ended a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients who marry...

Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez, 27, of Lyons, leaves Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after a hearing for a plea deal for impeding a federal agent during a Midway Blitz operation on April 15, 2026. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

Man pleads guilty to misdemeanor in Midway Blitz case originally brought by ‘Broadview Six’ grand jury

By Jason Meisner

August 14, 2026 at 2:08 p.m.

A felony conviction secured by federal prosecutors stemming from a traffic altercation during Operation Midway...

FILE — Inmates stands at windows at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, N.J., as demonstrators gather outside, May 28, 2026. The deaths of three Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees in less than eight months have raised urgent questions about the medical services provided at Delaney Hall and at other detention centers, with immigrants and local officials describing haphazard health care. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

Deaths of 3 ICE detainees prompt questions about medical care

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

August 14, 2026 at 8:25 a.m.

The deaths of three ICE detainees in less than eight months have raised urgent questions...

A Favorite Healthcare Staffing office along the 5500 block of North Cumberland Avenue on Oct. 11, 2023, in Chicago. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Illinois audit: State agency paid staffing firm $78.5M for contractors not actively working

By Jeremy Gorner

August 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Illinois auditor general found several oversight issues with the state's Emergency Management Agency-Office of...

New York Attorney General Letitia James, flanked by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, left, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, takes part in a press conference to announce action against ICE overreach in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

ICE’s plan to give officers electric shock gloves draws outrage and fears of misuse

By Ryan J. Foley

August 12, 2026 at 5:20 p.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced...

Federal agent Adam Saracco arrives for at the Maywood Courthouse on March 24, 2026. Saracco has pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor battery for throwing a protester to the ground. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

ICE agent pleads guilty to battering a protester at Brookfield gas station

By Madeline Buckley

August 12, 2026 at 3:57 p.m.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of...