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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino deposition: On 'exemplary' use of force comment
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- Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino deposition: On 'exemplary' use of force comment
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino stood by a comment he made to a local reporter defending the use of force that he has seen from federal agents at Broadview as "exemplary." Asked if all uses of force during Midway Blitz have been exemplary, he said they have been "more than exemplary." (U.S. District Court filing) (edited)
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- Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino deposition: On direct reports
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino testified that he has about 220 people who report directly to him during Midway Blitz. He said he reports directly to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. (U.S. District Court filing)
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- Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino deposition: On use of force in Chicago
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, in a Nov. 4, 2025 videotaped testimony, defends incidents of force he and his agents have used in the Chicago area. "That was not a reportable use of force," Bovino says when asked about his treatment of a protester on Oct. 3 outside the Broadview immigration facility. "I didn't tackle him. I placed him under arrest." (U.S. District Court filing)
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- Oak Brook police DUI arrest of ICE agent
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- 5 months ago
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- An Oak Brook police bodycam video obtained by the Tribune through an open records request captures the early morning Oct. 26, 2025, arrest of Guillermo J. Diaz-Torres, an off-duty ICE agent from Albuquerque, N. M., who was charged with DUI after he crashed a rented 2025 Kia Telluride into a row of tall hedges in the west suburban town. Police allege Diaz-Torres had fallen asleep at an intersection, then crashed the car after a Westmont police officer attempted to wake him.
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- East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation now missing in Mexico
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- A home security video shows federal immigration agents entering the East Chicago residence of Martha Porcallo Martinez on June 12, 2025 and telling her to put her hands up. She was arrested and charged with illegally reentry and sentenced to 6 months in jail on November 3, 2025. She will be deported afterward. Also arrested was her 26-year-old daughter who has schizophrenia. The daughter was taken to an ICE facility and chose to self-deport to Mexico to gain access to her medication. The family now reports her as missing. (Porcallo Martinez family)
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- Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Warning: Graphic language. Video shows the vehicle collision between federal agents and Dayanne Figueroa in Chicago's West Town neighborhood on Oct. 10, 2025. (Provided by Fernando Figueroa)
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- Melrose Park man detained on his way home from the grocery store on his bike
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Ricardo Aguayo Rodriguez, who was detained by immigration agents in Melrose Park on his way home from the grocery store on his bike Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, is hospitalized at Loyola Medicine's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. (Clara Elizabeth Gutierrez)
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- On Halloween, ‘state sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- After a car accident in Evanston, a federal immigration agent points a weapon at least twice toward onlookers while attempting to restrain a woman in Evanston. Another agent then kneels on a man’s back and apparently punches him in the side of the head, Oct. 31, 2025. (Lindsey Rose)
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- Man detained after trying to intervene with immigration agents in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- A man is detained after trying to intervene as federal agents attempt to pull a driver from a vehicle Friday morning on West Lawrence Avenue near North Kedzie Avenue in the city's Albany Park neighborhood. (Alivia Olson)
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- Man flees federal agents at Adrian’s Fresh Market in Avondale
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Security video footage from Adrian’s Fresh Market shows a man in a blue cap fleeing from a federal agent by scrambling inside the store, but the agent grabs him from behind as he bursts through the door. The two struggle for a bit before the man crawls to the ground and disappears inside the store. (Video provided by Adrian Guallpa)
Read the story here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/chicago-tear-gas-irving-park/
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- Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino leaves Dirksen U.S. Courthouse
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- A crowd gathered outside of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse reacts as Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino leaves after testifying, Oct. 28, 2025, about a temporary restraining order on their use of force. (Rebecca Johnson/Chicago Tribune)
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- Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Old Irving Park neighborhood residents say border patrol officers deployed tear gas while detaining a landscape worker, a resident of the area and a woman on a bike in the 3700 block of North Kildare Avenue on Oct. 25, 2025, in Chicago. (Carlos Rodriguez)
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- “Pa — te amo;” Federal agents arrest man outside of apartment complex in Naperville
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Authorities apprehend 47-year-old Carlos outside of an apartment complex in Naperville on Oct. 23, 2025. Carlos was taking his kids to school when immigration agents apprehended him. (Provided video)
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- Federal immigration agents tear gas Lakeview, raid Lincoln Park as feds focus on city’s North Side
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Federal immigration agents deployed tear gas at a Lakeview street Friday afternoon. Neighbors yelled at the agents to leave after they apparently detained a construction worker. (provided video)
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- Upset neighbors interrupt federal immigration manhunt in Mount Prospect
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Warning: Graphic content. Neighbors and advocates said a man being detained by federal immigration agents ran away in handcuffs, prompting a manhunt in the northwest suburb of Chicago as officers searched backyards and stopped vehicles. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
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- Federal immigration agents raid Swap-O-Rama, patrol Southwest Side
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Video shows a conversation between Adan Guerra and federal agents after Guerra confronted them in an alleyway behind his family's auto shop on Oct. 16, 2025. (Adan Guerra) Edited for content by the Tribune.
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- Teenage girl detained by unidentified officers in Hoffman Estates
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Warning graphic content: In a video filmed by a homeowner, a teenage girl is detained by unidentified officers on Oct. 10, 2025, in Hoffman Estates. The girl was later released without charges. (Obtained by the Tribune)
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- Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- A confrontation between U.S. Border Patrol agents and community members in the East Side neighborhood. Federal agents deployed multiple canisters of tear gas in a residential block of the East Side neighborhood on Oct. 14, 2025 following a crash. (provided video)
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- Federal immigration agents detain Spanish-speaking man and WGN producer in Chicago
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Federal immigration agents detained two people on Friday morning in Chicago on the 2400 block of West Foster Avenue, including a Spanish-speaking man and Debbie Brockman, who has worked as a producer for WGN since 2011, according to her LinkedIn profile. (Josh Thomas)
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- Chicago police officers are exposed to a chemical agent after arriving on the scene in Brighton Park
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Chicago police officers are exposed to a chemical agent after arriving on the scene where a protester was shot by a federal immigration agent, and another was detained, on the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood on Oct. 4, 2025. (Ryan Garza)
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- Federal agents fire guns at a Chicago activist they accuse of ‘boxing in’ vehicle in Brighton Park
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Elizabeth Ruiz talks about her son, Anthony Ruiz, 21, who was detained by federal agents on Oct. 4, 2025, in the 3900 block of Kedzie Avenue after an incident.
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Video by Peter Tsai / Chicago Tribune
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- Federal immigration agents throw gas canisters into a Chicago street
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Federal immigration agents throw gas canisters into the street near Rico Fresh Market in the 3500 block of West Armitage Avenue in Chicago on Oct. 3, 2025 (Andrew Denton)
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- Ald. Jessie Fuentes, 26th, is handcuffed by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Ald. Jessie Fuentes, 26th, is handcuffed by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health after asking if the agents had a warrant to detain a person who reportedly was injured while being chased on Oct. 3, 2025. (Marie Snyder)
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- Democratic state Sen. Karina Villa confronts ICE agents in West Chicago
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Democratic state Sen. Karina Villa confronts immigration enforcement agents in West Chicago and yells warnings at people nearby on Sept. 15, 2025. (Arturo Aguilar Jr.)
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- ICE agent in Franklin Park fatal shooting said injuries were ‘nothing major’
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- An ICE agent who fatally shot an immigrant in the U.S. without legal permission after allegedly being dragged by his fleeing vehicle earlier this month told Franklin Park police at the scene that his injuries were “nothing major,” according to body camera footage released to the Tribune on Tuesday.
The injured agent is shown on body camera footage looking at his hands and shaking his head. One of the legs of his jeans are ripped open, showing a bloody knee.
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- ICE agent in Franklin Park fatal shooting said injuries were ‘nothing major’
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- An ICE agent who fatally shot an undocumented immigrant after allegedly being dragged by his fleeing vehicle earlier this month told told Franklin Park Police at the scene that his injuries were “nothing major,” according to body-worn camera footage released to the Tribune.
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- Dog rescued in Aurora house fire led investigator to his leash while being rescued
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- A house fire response by the Aurora police and fire departments ended in the rescue of a four-year-old dog, who appears to have guided a police investigator to his leash during the incident.
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- President Donald Trump plans crime crackdown in Chicago similar to DC
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- President Donald Trump said Friday, August 22 that Chicago could receive similar treatment from the federal government as Washington, D.C., where nearly 2,000 National Guard troops have been deployed to quell what the president’s administration has characterized as an influx in dangerous crime.
Despite calling Chicago the nation’s “greatest city,” he criticized Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership. “When we’re ready, we’ll go in and straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C.,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
“I think Chicago will be our next,” he said. “And then we’ll help with New York.”
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- Brookfield Zoo announces birth of Amur leopard cubs, among the world’s rarest big cats
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Two Amur leopards, members of an endangered species, were born at Brookfield Zoo Chicago on July 14, the zoo announced on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
Zoo officials say both cubs and Mina, the 8-year-old first-time mother, appear to be healthy and are being kept in a private habitat in the zoo.
The cubs’ father, Sasha, was born at Brookfield Zoo in 2020. Mina arrived at the zoo in October 2021.
There are believed to be less than 100 Amur leopards in the world, making them among the world’s rarest big cats.
Video credit: Brookfield Zoo Chicago
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- Undercover video shows conversation between state senators and red-light camera executive
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In addition to talk about politics and business, the secretly-recorded conversations played for the jury in the bribery trial of Democratic State Sen. Emil Jones II so far have included a lot of typical male steakhouse banter, peppered at times with expletives and talk of the weather, traffic and the tenderness of Japanese-style Wagyu beef.
There were also several humorous moments, including when Jones recounted the “intervention” of suburban mayors who chastised him for opposing red-light cameras. The episode was led by then-Crestwood Mayor Lou Presta, who would later be convicted of being in SafeSpeed’s pocket.
State Sen. Martin Sandoval, told the group he attended seminary school with Presta’s brother, where they both were studying for “the priesthood.”
“I was a year away from being ordained,” Sandoval said as his companions started to chuckle. “I could have baptized you. You would’ve been able to go to confession with me!...
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- Undercover video shows conversation between state senators and red-light camera executive
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Prosecutors played a lengthy recording of a dinner where then-State Sen. Martin Sandoval, the powerful and corrupt head of the Senate Transportation Committee, introduced SafeSpeed LLC co-founder Omar Maani to Democratic State Sen. Emil Jones III.
Sandoval, who was unaware Maani was working undercover, told him in no uncertain terms that he and Jones had learned their “craft” from Jones’ powerful father. In some ways, he said, they had the same “daddy.”
“(Jones Jr.) knew how to leverage people,” Sandoval said in his trademark gruff tone at the June 2019 dinner at Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse in Oak Brook. “You know how many people paid attention to him? … So I say we were both brought up by the same daddy. We both have learned the craft the same way.”
Jones burst out laughing, saying to Sandoval: “You REALLY learned the craft.”
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- Ex-red-light camera company exec takes stand in bribery trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III: Part 2
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Democratic State Sen. Emil Jones III was digging into a big filet at his favorite downtown steak joint in July 2019 when his dinner companion, a red-light camera company executive, brought up Jones’ upcoming fundraiser at Sox Park.
“How much money you want me to come up with?” SafeSpeed LLC co-founder Omar Maani asked over the soft steakhouse din. “You tell me a number.”
Jones initially demurred, telling Maani no one had ever asked him that before. But Maani explained he was different, that he always wanted to meet expectations.
“You’re already meeting expectations, Omar,” Jones said, cutting into his steak while a hidden camera sat somewhere on the table across from him. “You’re a good guy. I like you all’s company a lot.”
Then Jones dropped the number: “If you can raise me five grand, that’d be good.”
“Done,” Maani replied quickly.
That conversation, which Maani secretly re...
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- Ex-red-light camera company exec takes stand in bribery trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III: Part 1
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- SafeSpeed LLC co-founder Omar Maani testified for the first time in a federal courtroom Wednesday, April 9, 2025 that his company routinely sought to influence elected officials with campaign cash, dinners and cigars to secure more business.
“We would cut deals with legislators for financial support,” said Maani, who admitted to his own wrongdoing after being confronted in January 2018 and was given a deferred prosecution agreement in exchange for his cooperation. “We would write checks for them from different companies to conceal it from the public….We were concerned the media would write there was some sort of collusion.”
A conversation with Democratic State Sen. Emil Jones III , which Maani secretly recorded for the FBI, was the focal point of a long first day of trial for Jones, the son of former Senate President Emil Jones Jr. Jones III is accused of agreeing to accept bribes from Maani in exchange for his help tamping down anti-red-light camera...
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- Young people convene in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A large crowd convenes on the Streeterville neighborhood, March 28, 2025, in Chicago. (Lukasz Dusza)
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- Ski jumper Sandra Sproch
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Seventeen-year-old Sandra Sproch is the newest member of the U.S. National Ski Jumping women’s team and has been competing on jumps nearly twice as large across Europe and the United States over the last several months.
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- Kelly College Prep wrestler Sara Martinez Lopera
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Sara Martinez Lopera, a sophomore at Thomas Kelly College Prep, is passionate about her sport.
She spends her lunch period watching film, taking notes to improve, and trains hard at practice, said her high school coach Jazzmine Seely, who is a former college wrestler. “She impressed me from the moment I met her.”
Lopera finished fourth in the 170-pound weight class at the Illinois High School Association’s Girls Wrestling Championships in Bloomington earlier this month. It was her first time competing at state after earning a 28-0 record this season.
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- Video: U.S. Secret Service agents and CPS officials speak outside of Hamline School
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In a video obtained by the Tribune from a Freedom of Information Act request, U.S. Secret Service agents and CPS officials speak outside Hamline School in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood in January. This video is from a camera on the southwest side of the school.
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- Video: U.S. Secret Service agents and CPS officials speak outside of Hamline School
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In a video obtained by the Tribune from a Freedom of Information Act request, U.S. Secret Service agents and CPS officials speak outside Hamline School in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood in January. (Chicago Public Schools)
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- Video shows U.S. Secret Service agents and CPS officials speak outside of Hamline School
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In a video obtained by the Tribune from a Freedom of Information Act request, U.S. Secret Service agents and CPS officials speak outside Hamline School in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood in January. The original 29-minute video has been edited for length by the Tribune.
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- COPA releases video of Chicago police fatally shooting man with knife in Little Village last month
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Warning: Video contains graphic content. Video released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability shows the fatal shooting of 58-year-old Timothy Glaze by Chicago police officers in a Little Village apartment hallway on Jan. 3, 2025. (COPA)
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- Alderman told to leave City Council meeting after he appeared to call colleague a white supremacist
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A City Council debate over whether a controversial pro-Gaza puppet display at the Chicago Cultural Center is antisemitic or a fair expression of free speech descended into disorder Tuesday, with an aldermanic ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson being told to leave the council chambers after he appeared to call another alderman a “white supremacist.”
Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, who last year was criticized for speaking at a protest rally where an American flag was burned, later Tuesday claimed he said the words “this is white supremacist” in the direction of Ald. Bill Conway, 34th, and didn’t direct his comments to Conway individually. After the comment was made during the committee meeting, it was temporarily recessed and neither alderman returned. The committee chair said he told Sigcho-Lopez not to return.
The argument capped a four-hour debate about the puppetry exhibit that features a two-sided “protest puppet” with bloodied caricatures of Uncle...
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- Thornton Township's first meeting with new trustee devolves into brawl
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A packed Thornton Township meeting Tuesday that started in high spirits devolved into a brawl after residents got up to speak.
Chaos erupted during the public comment period after community activist Jedidiah Brown called Supervisor Tiffany Henyard an expletive.
Following his comments, Brown was seen walking toward the table where Henyard and other township officials were seated before he spun around toward the back of the building where the fight broke out.
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- America’s oldest Black town is in Illinois — and it’s dying. But the fight has begun to save it.
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Brooklyn, Illinois, is considered to be one of the country's first Black settlements, the first majority-Black town in America to incorporate and the oldest such-town still in existence today.
But nearly 200 years after its founding, the tiny town nestled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River across from St. Louis is facing extinction. Now, a disparate group has coalesced around what many consider to be the best — and possibly last — chance at breathing new life into the historic community.
Brooklyn native Prince Wells III shared his father’s home movies from the early 1960s with Tribune photographer E. Jason Wambsgans.
Here's a look inside the push to save Brooklyn: trib.al/dJ3kw8O
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- Jury views undercover video of Michael Madigan - Part 1
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- House Speaker Michael Madigan was never known for his warm and fuzzy demeanor during his lengthy career, but in a private conversation with then-Ald. Daniel Solis at his downtown law firm in June 2018, Madigan seemed borderline giddy.
The two Democratic power brokers had just met with a West Loop developer about possibly hiring Madigan’s firm to reduce property taxes when Solis, who unbeknownst to the speaker was secretly cooperating with federal investigators, asked if he had a moment for a private talk.
Minutes later, Solis’ hidden video camera was rolling in Madigan’s office, where Solis, under the direction of the FBI, told the speaker he was thinking about retiring before the end of his next term and asked for help getting an appointment to a state board position.
And Solis said he would keep scratching Madigan’s back, too.
“I’ll continue to get you legal business,” Solis told Madigan on the video, which was played ...
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- Jury views undercover video of Michael Madigan - Part 2
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- House Speaker Michael Madigan was never known for his warm and fuzzy demeanor during his lengthy career, but in a private conversation with then-Ald. Daniel Solis at his downtown law firm in June 2018, Madigan seemed borderline giddy.
The two Democratic power brokers had just met with a West Loop developer about possibly hiring Madigan’s firm to reduce property taxes when Solis, who unbeknownst to the speaker was secretly cooperating with federal investigators, asked if he had a moment for a private talk.
Minutes later, Solis’ hidden video camera was rolling in Madigan’s office, where Solis, under the direction of the FBI, told the speaker he was thinking about retiring before the end of his next term and asked for help getting an appointment to a state board position.
And Solis said he would keep scratching Madigan’s back, too.
“I’ll continue to get you legal business,” Solis told Madigan on the video, which was played ...
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- Jury views undercover video of Jay Doherty - Part 2
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- One afternoon in February 2019, ComEd executive Fidel Marquez sat across from one of the utility’s consultants and asked a question that helped bring down one of the Capitol’s most powerful men.
ComEd for years had been giving Jay Doherty’s firm a huge monthly payout, much of which was passed along to a handful of subcontractors with connections to Chicago’s 13th Ward and long-reigning Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
So, Marquez asked Doherty as he fiddled with a pen from across a conference table, what exactly do those subcontractors do?
“Not much, to answer the question,” Doherty responded. “Not much.”
Unbeknownst to Doherty, Marquez was secretly recording their meeting on video for the FBI. And on Wednesday, more than five years later, Marquez sat on the witness stand as it was played for jurors at Madigan’s corruption trial.
The videos made by Marquez go to the heart of the charges against Ma...
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- Jury views undercover video of Jay Doherty - Part 1
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- One afternoon in February 2019, ComEd executive Fidel Marquez sat across from one of the utility’s consultants and asked a question that helped bring down one of the Capitol’s most powerful men.
ComEd for years had been giving Jay Doherty’s firm a huge monthly payout, much of which was passed along to a handful of subcontractors with connections to Chicago’s 13th Ward and long-reigning Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
So, Marquez asked Doherty as he fiddled with a pen from across a conference table, what exactly do those subcontractors do?
“Not much, to answer the question,” Doherty responded. “Not much.”
Unbeknownst to Doherty, Marquez was secretly recording their meeting on video for the FBI. And on Wednesday, more than five years later, Marquez sat on the witness stand as it was played for jurors at Madigan’s corruption trial.
The videos made by Marquez go to the heart of the charges against Ma...
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- Jury views undercover video of Michael McClain - Part 2
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Feb. 7, 2019, ComEd executive Fidel Marquez met with Michael McClain, a former lobbyist who allegedly acted as a conduit between former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and ComEd, at Saputo’s, a popular restaurant in Springfield. As they munched on pizza, the two talked about how to tell incoming ComEd CEO Joseph Dominguez about the off-the-books subcontractor arrangement. about the subcontractors.
McClain urged, “I would say you don’t put anything in writing,” saying it could end up being used against Marquez someday.
McClain told Marquez the subcontractors were on Doherty’s contract so if the IRS “ever comes in and says, ‘Who are these guys and what do they do?'” then “Doherty’s gotta prove it.”
Unbeknownst to McClain, Marquez was secretly recording their meeting on video for the FBI. And on Nov. 6, 2024, more than five years later, Marquez sat on the witness stand as it was played for jurors at Madigan’s corrupt...
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- Jury views undercover video of Michael McClain - Part 1
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Feb. 7, 2019, ComEd executive Fidel Marquez met with Michael McClain, a former lobbyist who allegedly acted as a conduit between former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and ComEd, at Saputo’s, a popular restaurant in Springfield. As they munched on pizza, the two talked about how to tell incoming ComEd CEO Joseph Dominguez about the off-the-books subcontractor arrangement. about the subcontractors.
McClain urged, “I would say you don’t put anything in writing,” saying it could end up being used against Marquez someday.
McClain told Marquez the subcontractors were on Doherty’s contract so if the IRS “ever comes in and says, ‘Who are these guys and what do they do?'” then “Doherty’s gotta prove it.”
Unbeknownst to McClain, Marquez was secretly recording their meeting on video for the FBI. And on Nov. 6, 2024, more than five years later, Marquez sat on the witness stand as it was played for jurors at Madigan’s corrupt...
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- Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Donald Trump's campaign said in a statement that he was “fine” after being whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.
“President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act,” spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. “He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility. More details will follow.”
The Secret Service said in a statement that “the former President is safe.”
The former president and presumptive Republican nominee was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers during his last rally before the Republican National Convention opens Monday when bangs started ringing through the crowd. Trump could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his neck. There appeared to be blood on his face.
He quickly ducked behind the riser as agents from his protective detail rushed the stage ...
