Chicago is a notoriously segregated city, which means that some neighborhoods have been completely transformed by ICE’s presence, while in non-Latino neighborhoods, it’s mostly been business as usual. But the response to the federal incursion knows no boundaries.
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Posted inHousing
The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago
Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.
Posted inPolitics
Chicago Strikes Back, With an Assist From Republican Governors
In the White House view of the world, Chicago is a putrid hellhole, so dangerous and crime-choked that local law enforcement needs federal backup. Gov. Pritzker is fighting back.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
CHICAGO – On September 12, attorney Kevin Herrera walked up to Chicagoland’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, passed a crowd of protesters who didn’t know what to make of him, and knocked on the building’s boarded-up front door. No reply. Another knock; nothing. Then Herrera walked to the side […]
Posted inWorking in America
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Posted inLaw and Justice
In Chicago, ICE Creates a Regime of Terror
On Friday, ICE agents killed a man in a suburb and fired pepper balls at peaceful protesters.
Posted inPolitics
JB Pritzker Shows How to Handle Trump
Cower before a bully, and he’ll only hit you harder. Stand up to him, however…
Posted inPolitics
Chicago Has a Warning for Zohran Mamdani
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was elected on a left-wing agenda. But he is struggling to maintain support while governing, due to his own errors and relentless opposition.
Posted inPolitics
Returning to the Scene of the Great Police Riot
The Democrats will convention in Chicago next year, and it’s not clear that they’ll get a warm welcome from the cops.
Posted inTAP
Parsing Chicago
Today on TAP: What progressives should learn, and what they shouldn’t learn, from Brandon Johnson’s upset victory in the mayoral race