Caroline Kubzansky
@ckubzansky.bsky.social
Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, [email protected]. @ctguild.bsky.social. Consulting maps from earlier days
@colinbphoto.bsky.social caught federal immigration agents in an apparent photo shoot at the Bean this morning and I guess this happened:
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
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While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
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Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
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November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@colinbphoto.bsky.social caught federal immigration agents in an apparent photo shoot at the Bean this morning and I guess this happened:
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
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Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
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Ogden and 26th Street at 11:30 a.m. today. Federal authorities claimed someone shot at their agents in Little Village this morning. They spent the next several hours circling the neighborhood, deploying chemical crowd controls and arresting people.
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ogden and 26th Street at 11:30 a.m. today. Federal authorities claimed someone shot at their agents in Little Village this morning. They spent the next several hours circling the neighborhood, deploying chemical crowd controls and arresting people.
After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.
This was a no.
Present situation: Faith over Fear clergy are trying to deliver a letter to the processing center but are instead engaged in what looks like an intense negotiation with Broadview Chief of Police
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This was a no.
Present situation: Faith over Fear clergy are trying to deliver a letter to the processing center but are instead engaged in what looks like an intense negotiation with Broadview Chief of Police
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Present situation: Faith over Fear clergy are trying to deliver a letter to the processing center but are instead engaged in what looks like an intense negotiation with Broadview Chief of Police
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Thomas Mills. Has been going on about five minutes now.
Broadview, 11:35 a.m.
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Broadview, 11:35 a.m.
Protestors are singing the Hebrew song Lo Yisa Goy, which roughly translates to “nation shall not lift up sword against nation” and is a song I grew up on
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Protestors are singing the Hebrew song Lo Yisa Goy, which roughly translates to “nation shall not lift up sword against nation” and is a song I grew up on
BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
Reposted by Caroline Kubzansky
NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
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‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
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His face uncovered and wearing dress clothes in place of his military fatigues, CBP agent Paul Delgado strode to the front of a federal courtroom Wednesday morning to testify about the minutes preceding the arrest of a Lakeview comedy club manager. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
Immigration agents testify in hearing on arrest of Laugh Factory manager
Federal judge finds government met burden to charge Laugh Factory manager after agents make rare appearance in court.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
His face uncovered and wearing dress clothes in place of his military fatigues, CBP agent Paul Delgado strode to the front of a federal courtroom Wednesday morning to testify about the minutes preceding the arrest of a Lakeview comedy club manager. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
911 calls in Little Village, an epicenter of "Operation Midway Blitz," have dropped like a rock. Neighborhood crime is way down but fear of federal agents is way up. Reported by @samjcharles.bsky.social, @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and Rebecca Johnson
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Operation Midway Blitz linked to dip in 911 calls, especially in Little Village
The rate of 911 calls made in Chicago has dropped precipitously in the two months since the start of Operation Midway Blitz, a Tribune review of city data found, and nowhere is the decrease more pr…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
911 calls in Little Village, an epicenter of "Operation Midway Blitz," have dropped like a rock. Neighborhood crime is way down but fear of federal agents is way up. Reported by @samjcharles.bsky.social, @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and Rebecca Johnson
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In fact I have had it up to here with your west country talk and I do think it is going to rain today www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas2...
New Britain
YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic
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November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In fact I have had it up to here with your west country talk and I do think it is going to rain today www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas2...
Some tags from the last few weeks: Gangster Party People at 18th/May or so, 18th/Wood; Latin Kings from somewhere on 99th Street in Calumet Park
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Some tags from the last few weeks: Gangster Party People at 18th/May or so, 18th/Wood; Latin Kings from somewhere on 99th Street in Calumet Park
Seen outside Kimball brown line stop following border patrol activity at Kedzie and Lawrence
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Seen outside Kimball brown line stop following border patrol activity at Kedzie and Lawrence
NEWS: Feds made another arrest in an O’Hare parking lot that led to them tasering the guy they were trying to apprehend and a three-car crash. Mayor Brandon Johnson issued an EO barring fed enforcement from city property like ORD earlier this month. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/b...
Border Patrol agents use taser and arrest man following crash in O’Hare parking lot
Border Patrol agents conducting yet another raid on an O’Hare parking lot for rideshare drivers Thursday evening tasered and arrested a man whom they accused of ramming their vehicle as he tr…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NEWS: Feds made another arrest in an O’Hare parking lot that led to them tasering the guy they were trying to apprehend and a three-car crash. Mayor Brandon Johnson issued an EO barring fed enforcement from city property like ORD earlier this month. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/b...
A lawsuit just filed against DHS alleges that federal agents refused arrestees medical care or showers, called them racial slurs and "only gave them food and water for what they felt was good behavior.” Via Madeline Buckley + @royalpratt.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/b...
Inhumane conditions and medical neglect alleged at Broadview ICE detention center
A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed on Friday against immigration officials, alleged dirty and unsafe conditions at the federal holding facility in Broadview where they say arrestees are being wa…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A lawsuit just filed against DHS alleges that federal agents refused arrestees medical care or showers, called them racial slurs and "only gave them food and water for what they felt was good behavior.” Via Madeline Buckley + @royalpratt.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/b...
NEWS: Bovino won't have to make a daily court appearance. For now. DOJ motion argues that would hamper mission of "ensuring the Nation’s immigration laws are properly enforced by waylaying a senior executive official critical to that mission on a daily basis.”
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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s daily report in federal court canceled by appeals court — for now
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino does not have to appear daily in court to brief a federal judge on the latest uses of force in “Operation Midwa…
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October 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: Bovino won't have to make a daily court appearance. For now. DOJ motion argues that would hamper mission of "ensuring the Nation’s immigration laws are properly enforced by waylaying a senior executive official critical to that mission on a daily basis.”
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Border patrol in 3 pm traffic. 19th and Ashland.
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Border patrol in 3 pm traffic. 19th and Ashland.
NEWS: Cmdr. Gregory Bovino has to appear in court daily at 6 p.m. to report on Border Patrol's enforcement activities. Directive follows multiple alleged violations of court order not to tear-gas bystanders, among other provisions. via @jmetr22b.bsky.social
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Judge orders Border Control Cmdr. Gregory Bovino to appear in court every day to report any immigration enforcement incidents
A federal judge was taking Border Control Cmdr. Gregory Bovino point by point through her temporary restraining order restricting the use of tear gas and other controversial tactics used by his age…
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October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
NEWS: Cmdr. Gregory Bovino has to appear in court daily at 6 p.m. to report on Border Patrol's enforcement activities. Directive follows multiple alleged violations of court order not to tear-gas bystanders, among other provisions. via @jmetr22b.bsky.social
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"One man... came with a Mason jar with a goldfish inside and a dog collar and leash around the neck of the jar, and tried to convince her that his entry was an Afghan hound who was dressed as a goldfish." - Rick Kogan, giving us all a break from Midway Blitz.
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Column: When the animals come out in their Halloween costumes
The 38th Annual Doggy and Kitty Halloween Party and Costume Parade held in the park to the east of the Museum of Contemporary Art saw hundreds of animals dress up for the occasion.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"One man... came with a Mason jar with a goldfish inside and a dog collar and leash around the neck of the jar, and tried to convince her that his entry was an Afghan hound who was dressed as a goldfish." - Rick Kogan, giving us all a break from Midway Blitz.
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A South Side drill rapper with close ties to Chicago musician Lil Durk was shot and killed in Little Village Saturday. via @samjcharles.bsky.social
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THF Bayzoo, associate of Lil Durk, killed in Little Village shooting
Eight years after he was acquitted of a murder charge, South Side drill rapper “THF Bayzoo,” who had close ties to Chicago musician Lil Durk, was shot to death in Little Village over the weekend.…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A South Side drill rapper with close ties to Chicago musician Lil Durk was shot and killed in Little Village Saturday. via @samjcharles.bsky.social
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Reposted by Caroline Kubzansky
Gig workers and street vendors and day laborers hit by feds in Chicago immigration crackdown www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/d...
Gig workers and street vendors and day laborers hit by feds in Chicago immigration crackdown
Instead of targeting factories and businesses in large-scale raids, federal agents are arresting Chicagoans who work out in the open.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Gig workers and street vendors and day laborers hit by feds in Chicago immigration crackdown www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/d...
In case you wanted to know what was going through the heads of some Chicago police as the feds throw tear gas and make arrests throughout the city, Jeremy Gorner and I have you covered here. What they have to say may surprise you.
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Chicago police find themselves in difficult spots as wave of federal immigration enforcement continues
On at least two occasions, CPD personnel responding to standoffs between neighbors and federal agents have found themselves tear-gassed alongside residents as agents react to thrown objects and sho…
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October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In case you wanted to know what was going through the heads of some Chicago police as the feds throw tear gas and make arrests throughout the city, Jeremy Gorner and I have you covered here. What they have to say may surprise you.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/26/c...
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