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 – Federal agents walk down a street while conducting immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy, File)

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

By Ryan J. Foley

August 12, 2026 at 8:35 a.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful...

Marimar Martínez listens to her attorney, Christopher Parente, testify about the day she got shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during an Illinois Accountability Commission hearing at the Michael A. Bilandic Building in the Loop on April 28, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

10 criminal complaints filed with Chicago police stemming from Operation Midway Blitz

By Sam Charles

August 11, 2026 at 3:12 p.m.

The Chicago woman shot five times last year by a federal immigration agent was among...

Will County Courthouse in Joliet. (Samantha Moilanen/Daily Southtown)

Man arrested in Mokena with Molotov cocktails, map of mosque facing immigration proceedings in ICE detention

By Evy Lewis

August 10, 2026 at 3:10 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said ICE lodged a detainer with the Will County...

FILE – Armed National Guard soldiers from West Virginia patrol the Mall near the Capitol in Washington, as part of President Donald Trump’s order to impose federal law enforcement in the nation’s capital, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Washington grapples with a National Guard deployment extended until 2029

By Gary Fields

August 10, 2026 at 12:58 p.m.

It’s been 12 months since President Donald Trump announced a crime emergency in Washington, pledging...

Army Staff Sgt. Alexis Jaramillo poses with a photo of his wife, Maisa Lopes Eliaser, a Brazilian national who is being detained by ICE, before visiting her at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, La., Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Joseph Vidrine)

Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth among congressional Democrats investigating efforts to deport US military members

By Jack Brook

August 10, 2026 at 6:26 a.m.

Congressional Democrats said they are investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to deport military service members...

Arnoldo Carrillo Jr. shows a photo of his father, Rosario Carrillo Lopez, who is being held after federal agents raided the family's home earlier this month. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Gary father faces deportation as lawyer calls ICE confrontation story ‘untrue’

By Meredith Colias-Pete

August 9, 2026 at 10:57 a.m.

Rosario Carrillo Lopez, 54, was sentenced Wednesday to one year and one day after pleading...

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

ICE takes issue with AP reporting on policy to release body-worn camera footage

By Associated Press

August 8, 2026 at 2:32 p.m.

The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took issue Saturday with reporting by...

Oak Lawn Community High School students showcase a traditional dance during last year's inaugural Sabores Sobre Ruedas, or Flavors on Wheels, festival. This year's celebration takes place 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 12 in the student parking lot at the school in Oak Lawn. (Ariela Torres/Oak Lawn Community High School)

Oak Lawn High School festival to celebrate Hispanic food and culture

By Janice Neumann

August 7, 2026 at 6:55 a.m.

Spanish-speaking students and staff at Oak Lawn Community High School will share their heritage with...

An ICE Special Response Team member stands guard outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, while protesters gather outside to denounce the ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, operations, June 10, 2025, in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says

By Ryan J. Foley

August 8, 2026 at 2:30 p.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next...

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Trump signs immigration actions to limit birthright citizenship and curb ‘birth tourism’

By Will Weissert

August 6, 2026 at 5:06 p.m.

President Donald Trump says he is once again trying to limit birthright citizenship in the...