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27 Police Officers Among Those Injured By Tear Gas During Weekend Protest, Chicago’s Top Cop Says Police Supt. Larry Snelling also disputed the claim pushed by federal officials that Chicago police ignored calls for help during a chaotic scene Saturday afternoon in Brighton Park.
06.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ChiArts Parents, Students Blindsided By Arts Board’s Vote Not To Renew CPS Contract Students, parents and teachers at the arts-focused high school are pressuring the administration for more transparency around the board’s decision. "They're cutting us off at the knees," one teacher said.
06.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mayor Brandon Johnson Bans Use Of City Property For Immigration Enforcement The executive order comes after reports that federal agents used city-owned lots for immigration operations and as Trump deploys National Guard troops to Chicago to guard ICE facilities.
06.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal Judge Won’t Immediately Block Troop Deployment After Illinois, Chicago File Lawsuit The Trump administration is planning to send hundreds of National Guardsmen to Illinois — despite local officials' objections.
06.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In New Book, Chicago Blogger And Witch Shows You How Cheese Can Be Magic To celebrate the release of her book, “Cheese Magic,” Erika Kubick is having a party Oct. 18 in Bucktown. Her latest book is dedicated to all things cheese, magic and the changing of the seasons.
06.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As Trump Calls 700 National Guard Members To Illinois, Judge Blocks Deployments In Oregon After ordering 300 guardsmen to the state Saturday, the Trump administration called for another 400 members from Texas Sunday. Gov. JB Pritzker called the move "Trump's invasion" of the state.
06.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Lake Michigan’s Swells, A Water Polo Club Is Building More Than A Pastime Hickory Water Polo Club co-founders Chris Mulcrone and Tammy Travers are rebuilding the greater Chicago water polo community one game at a time.
06.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amid ICE Activity, CTU And Elected Officials Call For Community To Protect Students, Families Teachers and other community members are volunteering to help monitor school dismissal. "I hope that we can stand together and that we can care for each other.”
06.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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City Will Not Be Plowing Sidewalks Anytime Soon As Measure Fails In Council Despite only including two pilot zones, alderpeople were skeptical of Plow The Sidewalk's feasibility and potential to incur lawsuits against the city. Advocates argue the service would help older Chicagoans and those with disabilities.
06.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brighton Park Gas Station Clerk Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds Gas station employee Narendra Byrapuneni helped protesters who sought refuge in his Brighton Park store Saturday after they were hit with tear gas by federal agents near the site of fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents.
05.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Broadview Sues Feds Over ‘Illegal’ Fence Near Suburban ICE Facility Federal officials built the fence around the ICE processing facility after the location became the site of continuing protests.
05.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal Agent Shoots Woman In Brighton Park, Causing Tense Scene With Protesters The woman shot by a federal agent was charged after prosecutors said she drove her car into a Border Patrol car.
05.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Sending 300 National Guard Troops To Chicago, Governor Says The escalation comes after weeks of President Donald Trump threatening to send the National Guard to Chicago.
04.10.2025 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Family, Grocery Shoppers Run As Masked Agent Throws Smoke Bomb Onto Busy Chicago Street Federal immigration agents appeared to be targeting Rico Fresh grocery store in Logan Square. “I thought this is a country where I can have freedom," one witness said. "Did I think this would happen to me in America? No."
03.10.2025 23:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
03.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Rogers Park Author Combined ‘Wuthering Heights’ And Ice Dancing Into A Bestseller Layne Fargo’s novel “The Favorites” was just released in paperback, and it’s in the running for a Chicago Review of Books Award in the fiction category.
03.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ChiArts Future In Limbo After Arts Board Votes Not To Renew CPS Contract The contract charter school — Chicago's only arts-focused public high school — was renewed last year by CPS for a two-year term and is currently on financial remediation until 2026.
03.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homeland Security Secretary Joins ICE Raid At Austin Walmart, Broadview Clashes Continue Protesters have gathered outside the facility for weeks with the goal of shutting it down, while Broadview officials have demanded ICE stop the "unprovoked" attacks.
03.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration To Pause Billions In Funding For Red Line Extension, Other Chicago Projects In a social media post Friday morning, federal budget director Russell Vought said $2.1 billion in funding has been "put on hold" for the CTA's Red Line Extension and the Red and Purple Modernization Project over concerns of "race-based contracting."
03.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feds Detained 4 Children Who Are US Citizens During Controversial ICE Raid The children were held "until they could be placed in the care of guardians," according to a New York Times report.
03.10.2025 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Border Patrol Agent Put Man In ‘Chokehold’ After West Side Car Crash, Leaders Say West Side neighbors and leaders are questioning why federal immigration agents were pursuing a man they suspected of being involved in a theft. "These thugs are completely out of control," the area's alderman said of the agents.
03.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wicker Park’s ‘Dog Poop Guy’ Mobilizes Neighbors To Scoop The Poop Kevin Sofen, an instructor in DePaul's Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, began his neighborhood clean-up business in March.
03.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lifestyle Brand Kith Opens Downtown Flagship This Weekend The two-level store features men's, women's and kid's apparel as well as Kith Treats, an ice cream bar with only-in-Chicago specials.
03.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Week In Photos: Feds Raid South Shore Building, Quantum Project Breaks Ground And More PHOTOS: Take a peek at life in the city through the eyes and lenses of the Block Club Chicago staff.
03.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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City Stops Damen Silos Demolition Due To Excessive Dust The demolition is on hold until the city approves new plans, officials said. Neighbors and environmental leaders had previously called for the city to stop the demolition over dust worries after the botched Hilco implosion in Little Village in 2020.
03.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Humboldt Park Boathouse Could Get All-Day Cafe — With Beer Garden The team behind North Pond restaurant in Lincoln Park has proposed opening Cafe Valera at the boathouse, which hasn't had a food concessionaire since 2020.
03.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Orders Release Of Man Who Had Legal Gun At Broadview ICE Protest U.S. Magistrate Judge Sunil Harjani cited a lack of criminal record in releasing Ray Collins, who is accused of charging officers and injuring an ATF agent's finger during a protest. Collins was carrying a loaded gun for which he had a lawful permit.
03.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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South Loop Lands Another Sushi Bar As M Lounge And Roots Handmade Pizza Close Sakana Sushi replaced My Place on Wabash Avenue last month, former Chicago Bear Israel Idonije is taking over M Lounge and only one Roots location remains open in West Town.
03.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mother, Children Detained By Feds Downtown Released, Father Sent To Texas Detention Center A neighbor has also set up a GoFundMe for the Albany Park family.
02.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Veterans Speak Out Against ICE’s ‘Mob Tactics’ In Broadview: ‘Our Democracy Is Being Crushed’ Activists and Chicago aldermen, meanwhile, are asking city and state leaders to do more to thwart ICE's efforts and treatment of protesters.
02.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0