Stephen Montemayor

Chicago's Brigitte Calls Me Baby Finds Silver Linings In The ‘Irreversible’ On New Album, Tour The band's sophomore LP releases Friday ahead of two sold-out shows at Thalia Hall in April. A January album preview at Schubas Tavern sold out within 55 seconds.

Chicago's Brigitte Calls Me Baby Finds Silver Linings In The ‘Irreversible’ On New Album, Tour blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/11/c...

Half Acre, Maplewood Breweries Merging Amid A ‘Rapidly Changing’ Beverage Market The popular Chicago beer brands will keep operating while the new company seeks growth in other segments like THC beverages and restaurant operations.

Half Acre Beer Co. in Bowmanville and Maplewood Brewery & Distillery in Logan Square will form a “unified beverage company” that will keep their respective brands active amid turbulent economic times for local craft breweries. blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/10/h... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

WWE Returns To United Center After 32-Year Hiatus Saturday’s Elimination Chamber event marks World Wrestling Entertainment’s first major show in Chicago since 1994, one the city’s tourism arm hopes is the start of a “long-term relationship.”

WWE Returns To United Center After 32-Year Hiatus. An interesting read from Mr. @smontemayor.bsky.social
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Inside the upheaval at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office Nearly half its lawyers have left since President Trump’s return, leading to dismissed criminal cases, stalled fraud prosecutions and a rare contempt citation against a Justice Department attorney.

Nearly half the lawyers at the U.S. Attorney's Office have left since President Trump’s return, leading to dismissed criminal cases, stalled fraud prosecutions and a rare contempt citation against a Justice Department attorney.

Why is the Cook County state’s attorney prosecuting nonviolent ICE protesters? blockclubchi.co/3ZXJS6K

Chief federal judge skewers U.S. Attorney’s Office, raises threat of criminal contempt over violations Minnesota’s chief federal judge said he’s found another 113 orders ICE has violated since late last month.

“This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt,” Judge Patrick Schiltz wrote. “One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court’s orders.”

WWE Returns To United Center After 32-Year Hiatus Saturday’s Elimination Chamber event marks World Wrestling Entertainment’s first major show in Chicago since 1994, one the city’s tourism arm hopes is the start of a “long-term relationship.”

WWE Returns To United Center After 32-Year Hiatus blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/w...

Why is the Cook County state’s attorney prosecuting nonviolent ICE protesters? blockclubchi.co/3ZXJS6K

After the University of Chicago's trauma center reopened, nearby shooting deaths fell nearly 4%, a study found. blockclubchi.co/4cLZHEX

Whiner Beer Company Closing Back Of The Yards Brewery, Taproom: 'We Gave It Our Best Shot' The Le Tub saison-makers announced Friday that they will close March 29 after a decade in Back of the Yards. It's the third Chicago brewery to announce a closure so far this year as the industry strug...

Whiner Beer Company Closing Back Of The Yards Brewery, Taproom: 'We Gave It Our Best Shot' blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/20/w...

Northwest Side's Illuminated Brew Works To Close In June: 'We Will Miss All Of You' Illuminated is the second brewery to close this year on the Northwest Side, and the third to announce a closure in the first weeks of 2026.

Northwest Side's Illuminated Brew Works To Close In June: 'We Will Miss All Of You' blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/20/n...

Warlord Chef's Abuse Went Unchecked For Years, Women And Ex-Workers Say Warlord star chef Trevor Fleming has been sharing sexual photos of women without consent and berating staffers for years, witnesses said. It was an open secret in the industry — and it's time for acco...

My biggest investigation: The star chef of Warlord has, for years, abused women, shared nude photos of romantic partners without their consent and created a toxic work environment by berating staff at the acclaimed restaurant, multiple ex employees+women said. blockclubchi.co/4tINuHj

How Kennedy-King College’s WKKC Became A Black Radio Powerhouse The only student radio station in the City Colleges of Chicago brought house music to the masses and launched the careers of DJs and artists in Chicago and beyond.

How Kennedy-King College’s WKKC Became A Black Radio Powerhouse, by @blockclubchi.bsky.social's Jamie Nesbitt Golden. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/19/h...

Warlord chef’s abuse went unchecked for years, women and ex-workers say. blockclubchi.co/4tINuHj

Provinzino was a longtime federal AUSA who prosecuted major international sex trafficking cases. The current U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Daniel Rosen, whose management of the office has sparked an unprecedented mass exodus, called her contempt order "a lawless abuse of judicial power."

Justice Dept. Lawyer Is Found in Contempt by Federal Judge

Minnesota U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino imposed what's believed to be the first civil contempt order against a DOJ attorney this term.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a political force in the United States and a leader in Chicago for decades, died Tuesday morning surrounded by family, his family said in a statement. blockclubchi.co/40dMUDJ

A federal agent shot a Chicago woman 5 times after saying she tried to ram him with her car.

Newly released evidence contradict that agent's account — and shows that agents boasted about the shooting. blockclubchi.co/463Y4i1

Live: Walz said Minnesota needs to focus recovery after ‘damage’ of ICE surge Tom Homan said Thursday that the drawdown will happen over the next week.

Gov. Tim Walz said about the federal immigration surge in Minnesota: “They left us with deep damage, generational trauma. They left us with economic ruin, in some cases.”

Photo shows a young girl with her cat

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.

She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.

Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Chicago Woman Shot By Border Patrol Plans To Attend Trump's State Of The Union Address Marimar Martinez is scheduled to attend Trump's address to Congress as a guest of Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, according to her attorney.

Chicago Woman Shot By Border Patrol Plans To Attend Trump's State Of The Union Address Later This Month blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/05/c...

The real story behind the midnight immigration raid on a South Shore apartment building.

✍️ @propublica.org: blockclubchi.co/3ZjrTXX

Catch me this afternoon speaking with a powerful panel on how local journalists can cover immigration enforcement operations. I'll be sharing more about how @blockclubchi.bsky.social covered Operation Midway Blitz.

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Live: Border official Tom Homan announces hundreds of agents will leave Minnesota White House border czar is negotiating with local officials on a deal for county jails to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

With the immediate removal of 700 federal agents from Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan put the total number of agents remaining in the state at approximately 2,000.

That’s still a dramatic increase from the normal immigration and enforcement staffing in Minnesota of around 150 agents.

After Feds Denied Him Lifesaving Meds, Hyde Park Man Ordered Released From 'Unlawful' Detention Albeiro Ropero Remolina — who was arrested near his Hyde Park home in December and denied several doses of needed medication while in custody, according to his attorneys — was released on bond and ret...

After a month in ICE custody, Albeiro Ropero Remolina was released on bond to his Hyde Park home.

"1000s of immigrants who should be eligible for bond are forced to endure unlawful detainment [as they wait for habeas petitions] to be granted," an attorney said. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/03/a...

Part of a thread about a public forum happening today. —>

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.: Meltdowns, Chaos, Vendettas Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.

That fraud scheme in Minnesota involving Somali Americans that Trump has trumpeted? FBI agents were pulled off the case to do routine immigration work, delaying the investigation, according to this revelatory oral history by Emily Bazelon and @rachelposer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Notably this includes Ana Voss, head of the civil division, whom Chief Judge Schiltz thanked by name for handling a deluge of habeas petitions in response to ICE’s barrage of unconstitutional arrests