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Amy Qin
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data reporter at WBEZ
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 2d
Feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park as neighbors respond to them detaining people. One person was taken, though another was freed.

“I was afraid to go over there. I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back."
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'
A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.
chicago.suntimes.com
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 4d
I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 4d
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ via @chicago.suntimes.com
Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door. On the other side was a mom and her seven-year-old daughter, pleading for his help. News clip reading: “I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 4d
NEW investigation from @lkpwrites.bsky.social:

IL colleges are contracting w/ for-profit businesses called online program managers which are paid as much as 50% tuition revenue for each student they enroll.
www.wbez.org/education/20...
Students for profit? University of Illinois campuses pay company per online student
Consumer protection advocates say the practice incentivizes the company to enroll as many students as possible, regardless of whether they'll benefit. University leaders says their standards aren't co...
www.wbez.org
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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 7d
This is from a video on X, showing inside the Broadview ICE facility when Noem was in town on Fri.

For context, she's in the central room with 15 workstations setup to process detained individuals, whether they were arrested by immigration enforcement or at protests.

See the orange triangles?
Kristi Noem inside the ICE facility at 1930 Beach St. in Broadview, IL. She is standing near a white man, smiling at a desk with a computer monitor and printer. Behind her is a cell door with a man looking out a narrow slit window. Next to him, three or four other men are seen through a larger window in the cell. Behind the white man are two upside down "demo bags" taped up over the windows to another cell.
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 8d
Bumping again--I'm back full time starting today. Am especially interested in hearing from unhoused people and advocates in Chicago who have been impacted by ICE and the now-looming National Guard deployment in our city. Signal is katie.507.
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · Aug 21
After taking some time away to have a dang baby, I'm back to work at the Chicago Reader. Have a question or tip about the state of harm reduction, homelessness, and/or drugs in Chicago? Send me a line at [email protected]. I also cover: cultural lore, ghosts of all kinds, & city characters.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 10d
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11d
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d
What we just saw: state police not only assisting federal agents with crowd control out here, but also protester arrests.

All morning, this has been a nonviolent demonstration. Have not seen a single crime from this crowd (not that that would excuse the brutality).
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 11d
There’s no medical staff or services at Broadview. No food preparation. No beds. That’s all by design because the facility was created for holds less than 12 hours.
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chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
A column chart showing the average time by days spent at the Broadview processing center spiking in June.
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Lauren FitzPatrick @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social · 13d
Broadview was never designed to be a detention facility, but the administration of President Donald Trump is now using it as a de facto one. As a “service processing center” it’s intended to hold up people picked up by immigration authorities for up to 12 hours. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
ICE's Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight
ICE regularly held immigrants far beyond the hours they set for the Broadview processing center, data through July shows. Immigrants held there say there are no beds, limited food, and toilets are out...
chicago.suntimes.com
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15d
JUST IN: In declarations to the court, top officials in the Portland Police Bureau and the Oregon State Police say they really don't need federal/military assistance to contain the relatively minor protests they're seeing outside ICE facilities.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Maxwell Evans @afrodip.bsky.social · 19d
City Council just backed a plan to set aside city-owned land for affordable housing and fund homeownership programs near the future Obama Center.

The ordinance passed within a day, after an initial draft — focused solely on South Shore — stalled for 2 years. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/25/o...
Obama Center Housing Ordinance Passes City Council After 2-Year Delay And Overhaul
Alderpeople on Thursday approved an ordinance to fund homeownership programs and reserve city-owned land for income-based housing in three South Side neighborhoods near the future Obama Presidential C...
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 21d
Since 2023, the city has drawn between $70 million and $90 million of an approximately $325 million federal loan for lead service line replacements that expires next year

via @keertigopal.bsky.social and @juanpab.bsky.social grist.org/economics/ch...
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NPR @npr.org · 22d
The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.
USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food
The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 25d
NEW: US law enforcement have claimed the use of certain *emojis* could signal affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang, records reveal. The "ludicrous" claims, like assertions about tattoos, could further fuel false gang labels + deportations. W/ @propertyofthepeople.org

emoji docs excerpted here ⬇️
Revealed: US law enforcement claimed emojis could signal Tren de Aragua affiliation
Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor
www.theguardian.com
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27d
Late rent payments have jumped up.

In recent months, the percent of tenants who are late on rent has risen toward 12%.

But that’s not the whole story 🧵
Chart showing the recent spike in late rents. nearing 12 percent means more late payments than anytime since January 2021, according to the chart.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 28d
Elgin man who is a US citizen was briefly detained in latest Chicago-area ICE blitz (gift link) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/16/e...
Elgin man who is a US citizen was briefly detained in latest Chicago-area ICE blitz
An Elgin man who was born in Texas said he was handcuffed and placed in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle, as part of the latest Chicago-area ICE blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 11
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
www.theguardian.com
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 9
Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters

The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
www.wxxinews.org
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · Sep 9
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
www.theguardian.com
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · Sep 8
So the Supreme Court just allowed ICE agents to racially profile **in an order that was “unsigned and gave no reasons.” **
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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · Sep 5
It's been a pleasure to be involved in this important project!! Huge congrats to @amyqin.bsky.social @estheryjkang.bsky.social and the rest of the @wbez.org team and our collaborators at @miurbanchicago.bsky.social

The work @writeralejandra.bsky.social and I began with #TheTenantTrap continues!
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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · Sep 5
Who owns your building? Chances are, it's an LLC.

We looked at ~26m property records in Chicago and found LLC ownership of large rental properties went up nearly 4x in the past two decades.

New story + data out from me and @estheryjkang.bsky.social

www.wbez.org/housing/2025...
Line chart showing an increase in the percentage of 7+ unit rental properties in chicago that are owned by LLCs, going from 9% in 2006 to 34% in 2022.
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