Dan Lambert

Rahm Ordered to Testify About CPD’s ‘Code of Silence’ During Trial Over Botched Raid A trial, set to start Monday, will decide whether CPD officers traumatized two women and four children in August when a CPD SWAT team broke down the door of their apartment, pointed assault rifles dir...

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered former Mayor Emanuel to testify about allegations that a “code of silence” among CPD officers led to a botched 2018 raid of a Back of the Yards apartment that violated the civil rights of a family with 4 children — ages 4, 8, 11 and 13. @wttw.bsky.social

Trump Signals Interest in Easing Tensions, but Minneapolis Sees Little Change on the Streets President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second deadly shooting by federal immigration agents, but there was little evidence Wednesday of any signi...

When AP journalists got out of their car today to document immigration enforcement actions, federal Bureau of Prisons officers pushed one of them, threatened them with arrest and told them to get back in their car despite the reporters' identifying themselves as media.

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The jury deliberated for about three hours after a trial that featured testimony from just four witnesses in a case where the verdict was announced just a day after opening statements began, reports @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

Chicago Man Acquitted of Murder-for-Hire Charge in Plot Allegedly Targeting Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino A 12-person jury reached its verdict Thursday afternoon in the case of Juan Espinoza Martinez, who was charged in a murder-for-hire plot after prosecutors alleged he offered $10,000 for someone to kil...

A federal jury has acquitted a Chicago man accused of placing a bounty on the head of Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino as he spearheaded the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement operations across the city and beyond last fall.

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NEW TONIGHT: Mayor Brandon Johnson is scheduled to appear on “Chicago Tonight” Tuesday to discuss the city’s budget after City Council members approved a version that he fiercely opposed.

The show airs at 5:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and streams on-demand online. https://to.wttw.com/3Lhpaeb

Jury Rejects Lawsuit Filed by Man Police Shot in CTA Red Line Station A federal jury determined Chicago police officers did not violate the civil rights of the Chicago man they shot during a February 2020 incident in the Grand Red Line CTA station, records show.

A federal jury determined Chicago police officers did not violate the civil rights of the Chicago man they shot during a February 2020 incident in the Grand Red Line CTA station, records show. @wttw.bsky.social

This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org.

Roseland Hospital Failed to Monitor a Patient During a Mental Health Crisis, Regulators Say. Now He’s Charged With Killing His Wife Since 2023, Roseland Community Hospital has received at least four immediate jeopardy citations. That warning is the most serious deficiency a health care facility can be cited for, according to feder...

Roseland’s failure, documented by hospital regulators, was such a serious breach the hospital received an “immediate jeopardy” citation.

The case isn’t an outlier.

Since 2023, Roseland has received at least four immediate jeopardy citations. Read the full story:

After spending nearly 90 minutes in the emergency department’s waiting room, then outside the ER entrance, he left the hospital and returned home.

The hospital didn’t notice for another 90 minutes.

At home that same day, prosecutors say he stabbed his wife through the chest. She later died.

Roseland Hospital Failed to Monitor a Patient During a Mental Health Crisis, Regulators Say. Now He’s Charged With Killing His Wife Since 2023, Roseland Community Hospital has received at least four immediate jeopardy citations. That warning is the most serious deficiency a health care facility can be cited for, according to feder...

A new investigation today from @ndblumberg.bsky.social focuses on Roseland Hospital.

On Oct. 3, a man was taken to the ER after reporting he was a danger to himself and his wife.

Because he was experiencing thoughts of suicide, regulators say he should've been monitored at all times. He wasn't.

From Skepticism to Savings: Suburban Pension Consolidation Helps Ease Burden for Illinois Taxpayers Illinois’ consolidation of suburban police and fire pension funds is beginning to pay off, with records showing improved investment returns and significant cost savings for some local governments. Whi...

Pooling assets. Cutting fees. Improving returns. Illinois’ pension consolidation is changing the game for suburban communities.

Dive into the numbers in my latest report 👮🧑‍🚒 Look up your community if you live outside Chicago!

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North Center Daycare Teacher Detained by ICE Released From Custody Diana Santillana Galeano, who had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Clay County, Indiana, was released Wednesday night, hours after a federal judge granted a habeas peti...

A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday.

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Full quote from Ellis:

"The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion." @wttw.bsky.social

Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’ Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

Federal Judge Orders Broadview ICE Detention Center to Improve Conditions, Access to Food and Water U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order requiring ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to provide clean bedding mats, toiletries and at least thr...

A federal judge is ordering Trump officials to address “unacceptable” conditions at the ICE processing facility in Broadview after hearing hours of testimony from detainees detailing overcrowding, a lack of bedding and inadequate food and water.

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Policing | Chicago News | WTTW WTTW News dives deep into why consent decree reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve.

Since 2019, the Chicago Police Department has operated under a consent decree.

WTTW News has spent the last few months diving deep into why reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve, and you can find it all here. 🧵🔽

Broadview ICE Facility Lacks Beds, Showers, Adequate Food as Detainees Detail ‘Inhumane’ Conditions to Federal Judge The MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit alleging ICE officials are denying detainees access to their attorneys and subjecting them to mistreatment and overcrowding. Feder...

Testimony continues today as part of a lawsuit brought by the MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois asking for a temporary restraining order to address what they claim are “inhumane and unlawful conditions” at the Broadview facility.

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Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Gets Out of Daily Check-Ins For Now After Appeals Court Grants Emergency Stay The DOJ filed the motion with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday afternoon, hours before Bovino was set to appear at the Dirksen Federal Building to meet with U.S. District Judge Sara E...

FULL STORY: Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino will not appear in court Wednesday for what was to be the first of his daily check-ins with a judge after a federal appellate court granted an emergency stay hours before he was set to appear, @bymattmasterson.bsky.social reports for @wttw.bsky.social

Illinois Lawmaker Wants to Help Federal Immigration Officials ID Undocumented People in State Custody In an October interview with a downstate radio station, state Sen. Terri Bryant said she gave a list of undocumented individuals currently being held in Illinois state prisons to Secretary of Homeland...

NEW: An Illinois lawmaker put out a call to corrections staff to contact her about incarcerated undocumented people. Months later, she gets a list purporting to be that, and hands it to Kristi Noem. But it appears to be information that DHS already had access to. news.wttw.com/2025/10/24/i...

Johnson’s 2026 Budget Sets Aside Just $82.5M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits, Even Though Chicago Has Already Spent $90M Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $267 million to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct so far this year, according to an analysis of city data by ...

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget for 2026 sets aside just $82.5M to cover the cost of resolving police misconduct lawsuits, even though the city has already agreed to spend $90M next year to resolve 176 lawsuits tied to former Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team. @wttw.bsky.social

Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

Federal Judge Appears Skeptical of Reasoning Behind National Guard Deployment in Illinois During Ongoing Hearing Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

As we wait for Judge April Perry to rule, here's my full story from this morning's extraordinary hearing, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Perry: "Are you aware that a federal judge found that ICE violated the First and Fourth Amendments rights of peaceful protestors at Broadview?"
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president

Chicago Tonight Watch/Listen Live | Chicago News | WTTW Watch and listen to Chicago Tonight live on your mobile device, streaming to your smart TV, or on your computer.

As National Guard troops are set to be deployed in Chicago as soon as tomorrow, Mayor Brandon Johnson is live on "Chicago Tonight" at 5:30 to discuss the latest developments.

Watch here: to.wttw.com/LiveStream

Chicago Journalists, Protesters Suing Trump Administration Over Alleged First Amendment Violations at Broadview ICE Facility The Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Newspaper Guild Local 34071, Block Club Chicago and other media groups filed the suit alongside protesters in federal court alleging their First Amendment rights hav...

Chicago-area journalists and protesters are suing the Trump administration, claiming ICE agents have engaged in a “pattern of extreme brutality” they say is a “concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians” outside the agency’s Broadview processing facility.

2 Chicagoans, Including Woman Shot by Federal Agents, Charged with Ramming Border Patrol Vehicle Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are facing felony charges of “forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer,” federal prosecutors announc...

FULL STORY: Federal prosecutors charged two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, with ramming a vehicle driven by a federal agent in Brighton Park on Saturday morning, sparking a heated confrontation between residents & federal agents. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes Handcuffed by Federal Agents While Asking About Patient’s ICE Warrant at Hospital Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was detained by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health, as tensions continue to rise between local residents and officials and immigration agents conducting enforcement...

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed and briefly detained by federal agents inside a hospital on Friday while asking about a patient's ICE arrest warrant.

Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.”

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‘It All Has to Stop’: Broadview Officials Call on ICE to end Use of Chemical Munitions, Rubber Bullets Amid Protests Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of waging a “disinformation campaign” amid their continued use of chemical and less-lethal munitions directed at...

Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of waging a “disinformation campaign” amid their continued use of chemical and less-lethal munitions on crowds outside the agency’s Broadview processing center. https://to.wttw.com/4mIC0yO