A Chicago alderperson said she ended up in handcuffs for a short time on Friday when she arrived at a hospital, hoping to speak with a man who had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Hovering helicopters and unmarked vehicles were part of a federal enforcement operation in the Logan Square neighborhood

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker rejected an “ultimatum” from the US Department of War on Saturday to deploy troops in Chicago — and claimed that the Trump administration would respond by federalizing hundreds of Illinois National Guard members.

In a Chicago neighborhood, Andrew Denton, 39, stopped at a grocery store for lunch and heard honking from an SUV stopped behind a motorcycle parked in the middle of the street. He realized ICE agents were in the SUV and started shooting video just before the agents threw canisters of gas near passersby.

Impacts of the partial government shutdown are being felt across the country and here in Illinois, which has more than 153,000 federal workers. About 1,000 of them work for the EPA’s Region 5 and are union members with the American Federation Of Government Employees Local 704.

Federal authorities shot a Chicago activist in Brighton Park on Saturday, but accounts differ on what happened before agents fired their guns.

Federal agents carried out an immigration raid early Tuesday on Chicago’s South Side, taking at least 37 undocumented immigrants into custody in an area known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua gang members.

Some protesters have aimed to block vehicles from going in or out of the area around the ICE processing facility in Broadview in recent weeks.

A powerful local film is raising awareness and funds in the fight against alzheimer’s. “Forget Me Not,” A film created by two Chicago filmmakers personally impacted by