"[Cook County State's Attorney] O’Neill Burke rebuked the call for a special prosecutor...
'Yet there has been no federal or state investigation or prosecution of any [of] the individuals who perpetrated these offenses,” the firm said."
Something I never really noticed until I had school-age kids is just how many schools are right by the highway. Kids at St. Stan’s in West Town play in spitting distance of the Kennedy. The air quality must be absolute crap.
A certain state senator running “CTA crime headline” attack ads next to their primary competitor tells me everything I need to know about their views on transit.
I see a lot of people (mostly non-locals but also some locals) not understanding what this news is: a last ditch attempt to work around the fact that the tepid prosecutor who succeeded Foxx isn't prioritizing this work within CCSAO. A response to perceived failure of CCSAO to seek accountability.
Map showing early voting by ward in Chicago as of March 9, 2026
We're a week out from the Illinois primary, and based on early voting, it's looking like it could be one of the strongest turnouts in a while.
But as per usual, early voting varies a lot by ward. Also as per usual, Beverly and Mount Greenwood voters are hitting the polls early.
A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.
@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
"Her office said local law enforcement agencies haven’t sought charges against any on-duty immigration officials."
Oh, did every law enforcement agency working in Cook County ignore 6 months of your guidance memos on what kind of cases/evidence they should be sure to send to you
Or was it just 🦗🦗🦗
Shorter: Rep. Jaime Andrade is flat out lying.
Millions of Chicagolanders live in one suburb and commute to another suburb on trips that are simply impossible on existing transit. As city NIMBYs continue to pull up the ladder behind them by fighting more housing near existing transit, we need to create a reliable, truly regional transit network.
new: a couple hundred south-side residents gathered at christ bible church in south shore on saturday to discuss the future of the sprawling quantum computing megadevelopment.
attendees shared fears about displacing longtime residents and imagined what real community investment might look like.
"What if the $500 million in state dollars dedicated ... to the quantum computing campus in South Chicago was instead given to local residents to invest in their community as they see fit?"
South-siders imagine community gardens, streets that don't flood, & mental health care.
I cannot believe it is 2026 and we are still barricading Millennium Park.
A community center that, amongst others, serves deaf/mute refugees receives voicemails from shut in suburban pensioners about how they’re so happy that the center “caught the attention of ICE for hating whites and refusing to help white people”. I know this because I got to hear them.
From Chicago to Palestine, attacks on our children must end!
I am relieved that the children attacked Friday are safe and uninjured. I am proud of the ways Ballet Folklorico de Chicago continues to create space for our community to celebrate our culture.
don't care who wins as long as she loses
icymi: both the university of illinois and northwestern have scrapped a slew of initiatives meant to uplift black, queer, and other marginalized students/faculty.
the compliance with president donald trump's bigoted directives has many questioning the values of schools they thought they knew.
Rich Miller on Jaime Andrade's "hallucinatory campaign"
Happening now at the Broadview, IL ICE facility: waiting for a press conference on the story of Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a US citizen who was reportedly detained by federal immigration agents at O'Hare Airport Thursday and ended up released from a detention facility in Wisconsin early Saturday morning.
Presser has wrapped. A group of protesters have come around to the Harvard side lot.
People are heckling Cook County Sheriff's officers who are manning the barricades.
Shouting, "Shame! Shame!"
Saw at least two cars taken, not sure how many in total.
The truck wasn't city owned, was a private company.
Broadview PD issued a warning beforehand but said Beach Street was the issue, not Lexington.
The women targeted are crying. They drove a long way to attend today's presser.
Outside the Chicago area ICE facility in Broadview this afternoon, people are gathered for what should have been a relatively uneventful press conference explaining what happened with US citizens detained by CBP on Friday.
Folks are now running down the street bc their vehicles were just towed.
navqi’s sister says their family drove to dodge county, wisconsin, where ice took the six after leaving broadview. dodge county sheriffs denied to navqi’s family that they were holding any women in the jail before ultimately releasing her after 5 a.m. on her own without a working phone.
the difference right now is that sunny’s family happened to know several people here, says showalter. but there are thousands of people who are held for days on end while their families have no information about where they are or if they’re ok.
while this presser on, broadview police are towing people’s cars parked in the street
rob held, attorney of sundas “sunny” naqvi, one of the six people detained, says more concerning than ice abducting people from the airport is the squalid conditions at broadview and in ice detention centers across the u.s.
family and friends gave the u.s. attorney’s office the phone number of one of the detained people, whose phone was pinging at the broadview facility. after doing so, the phone unlocked, someone read their messages, and then the phone turned off.
sometime around then, ice took the six people to wi.
one of the people taken by ice after returning on a flight to the u.s. was missing for more than 30 hours before their phone’s location pinged at the broadview ice jail late friday.
ice repeatedly denied to electeds and officers that the six people were detained at the jail.
a lectern with microphones is placed in the street in front of an ice detention center in broadview, illinois.
i’m outside the ice jail in broadview, illinois, where community members and electeds are holding a press conference after six people, including three u.s. citizens, were abducted from o’hare airport and detained for more than 40 hours.
feds took the six people to wisconsin before repeating them.
