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Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

ISP just shoved an elderly woman to the ground. Trooper here declares an unlawful assembly and is screaming at people to stay out of the road (they were...already out of the road).

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

ISP declares unlawful assembly again via loudspeaker now.

Unsure why since all people are doing right now is standing on the sidewalk where they've been ordered to be.

They're telling people they have to either disperse or return to designated free speech zone.

Everyone is out of the road and either in the ~free speech zone~ or on adjacent corners. Troopers with long batons in the street now. Across the intersection, they are tightly guarding protesters and press from stepping off the sidewalk.

ISP gets in formation and a number of them march away from the intersection, toward the parking lot neighboring the ICE facility (it belongs to a business, not ICE's lot).

The crowd starts a rendition of The Imperial March.

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

What happened in Chicago isn't getting nearly enough attention.

Flyer for Broadview protests. Text reads: NO MORE DEPORTATIONS | SHUT DOWN THE BROADVIEW FACILITY | 7-9am, Friday October 3 | 4pm-onward, Saturday October 4 | 1930 Beach St, Broadview IL | Bring a buddy, respirators, and goggles

Your local law enforcement agencies are proud to announce that you now have fewer rights to public space than a hastily erected fence does

ICE claims to have taken 900 people from Chicagoland, but the state police are now going to do crowd control to stop the protesters who are trying to get in the way.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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Federal judge orders family detained by ICE at Millennium Park to remain in the U.S. until Monday As the Trump administration's deportation campaign wages on, new details emerge in court filings about separate immigration arrests at Millennium Park and MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn.

A federal judge in Chicago ordered immigration authorities not to remove from the country a family detained Sunday in front of Crown Fountain at Millennium Park until Monday, when he’s scheduled a hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
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Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...

The ICE Goons will never succeed so long as they keep showing their Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

Agents on the roof with pepper ball gun set up to snipe. Also flying their drone.

Broadview police here have already threatened protesters with arrest several times.

Note: the new "free speech zone" with barricades set up by the ICE fence is around the corner. This driveway through an adjacent lot with businesses lining it is where ICE vehicles travel through now.

In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago—

Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks.

Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests.

ICE vans periodically rolling in.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

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New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space.

We're organizing a debt-strike.

Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord.

And we're going to win.

Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging.

Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time.

More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadvi…

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

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Afterwards, organizers went into immediate care mode.

People passed out water and other products to wash out eyes.

Others passed out paper towels and consoled those who were visibly impacted or upset.

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss was among those recovering from the tear gas.

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Some people out here come with bags of clothing and paperwork to drop off to those detained inside the Broadview ICE facility outside of Chicago.

But there’s no drop off information or instructions. When they knock on the boarded-up door, no one answers.

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For a few minutes, periodic arrivals of SUVs. Gregory Bovino, who recently ran deportation operations in the LA area, exited one of them, stood in front of the gate in what appeared to be some sort of stare down. A few paper balls. One man hit with at least 7.

After ICE arrests, worried families trek to Broadview facility seeking answers Amid President Donald Trump's immigration deportation campaign, the loved ones of those detained struggle with their absence.

Amid President Trump’s immigration deportation campaign, the loved ones of those detained have been arriving at the Broadview ICE facility desperate for information — only to be turned away with few answers.

JUST NOW — Our reporters are at the Broadview ICE facility (outside of Chicago) where protestors have been demonstrating since 5:00 a.m.

As a cargo van left the facility, a federal agent on the roof started shooting what seems to be pepper balls at protestors just before 9:00 a.m.

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