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Three more people have been charged in federal court in Chicago with using their vehicles to impede and interfere with the work of federal agents in the Chicago area. The charges allege that two of the three defendants rammed their vehicles into vehicles being driven by federal agents, while the third defendant rear-ended a federal law enforcement vehicle, according to criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The defendants have made their initial appearances in federal court. The charges are as follows: Widman Osberto Lopez Funes, 18 of Bensenville, Ill., is charged with felony assault of a federal...

Two men who killed a 60-year-old man in an expressway shooting nearly four years ago while they were both on pretrial release for felony gun cases have pleaded guilty. Joshua Concepcion, 22, and Alexis Perez, 20, were sentenced to 15 years and 12 years, respectively, according to court records. Around 4:19 a.m. on November 18, 2021, Federico Bautista was driving to work in McKinley Park when Perez, driving a stolen Jeep in the opposite direction on Damen Avenue, saw him and popped a U-turn, prosecutors said. Perez allegedly followed Bautista onto the Stevenson Expressway and pulled up alongside Bautista’s car...

Radio transmissions confirm Chicago Police were ordered not to respond to calls for help from ICE after a domestic terror attack on their Agents and surrounded by insurgents

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN. “They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone.”More than 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crackdown started last month...

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said the Trump administration was attempting to make Chicago a war zone to justify sending in more troops. Pritzker said, “Instead of going after the bad guys, they’re just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. Are you a U.S. citizen? I don’t know about you, but I don’t carry around papers that say I’m a U.S. citizen. So you can imagine people are getting detained. They’re getting arrested, U.S. citizens. And they did this, of course, when they raided a building in the middle of the night in South...

More than 1,000 illegal aliens in Illinois have been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol officers as part of Operation Midway Blitz, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Friday. The milestone came the same day Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to Chicago, where she joined agents on raids. One of the raids, which netted several detentions, was at a Walmart. DHS officials say the operation is pulling some of the "worst of the worst" off the streets. Arrests include pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers. The crackdown began Sept....

People are ramming federal officials near Chicago, according to Assistant Secretary Dept. of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin. Department of Homeland Security employees reporting being rammed and boxed in by 10 cars in Broadview, about 13 miles from Chicago. McLaughlin posted on X. “This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars. Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with...

The Attorney General of the United States just opened an investigation into the Command Staff of the Portland Police for refusing to enforce the laws over ICE protests in Oregon. Chicago is next - following the shooting of an armed offender who was involved in a mass ramming of ICE vehicles, this went out over the PDTs: “NO UNITS WILL REPOND TO THIS…” (Image at link)

A woman was shot by US Border Patrol agents in Chicago after officers were 'boxed in' by multiple vehicles. Patrolling agents were in the Windy City's South Side near 39th and Kedzie on Saturday when they were 'rammed by ten cars,' according to Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers included a woman 'armed with a semi-automatic weapon', which prompted officers to fire defensive shots. The female in question was part of an internal threat bulletin circulated after allegedly doxxing law enforcement officials online. The posts, made under the name...

Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars. Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds. The armed woman was named in a @CBP...

While President Donald Trump has stopped short of sending National Guard troops into Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security is doing some major damage against illegal aliens being harbored in the area. DHS law enforcement has made OVER 900 ARRESTS during Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois.To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally. We will find you. pic.twitter.com/m9PxbuK5Ua— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 2, 2025The work has been dangerous for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who have been under siege by local activists and criminal aliens. "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were targets of two separate...

The Trump administration plans to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker says. Pritzker, who called the move “absolutely outrageous and un-American,” said the Illinois National Guard received word from the Pentagon on Saturday morning that the troops would be called up. He did not specify when or where they would be deployed, but President Donald Trump has long threatened to send troops into Chicago.

U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman in Chicago Saturday after an angry mob apparently tried to attack the law enforcement officers. The gunfire erupted after a group of agents were “rammed in by 10 cars” and “boxed in” while patrolling the city’s South Side, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the Chicago Sun-Times. The agents fired “defensive shots,” then discovered the woman, who was driving in a vehicle, “was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” McLaughlin told the outlet.

Two women who were punched while walking in Lincoln Park and the Loop said they were attacked by the same man. Other women also have been assaulted, and the man accused in the attacks has a long record of being arrested, prosecuted, and then quickly being set free to attack again. Anne Kurze said she’ll never forget his face. “His eyes, his face, they’re seared into my memory,” she said. She identified William Livingston to police in a lineup after she was attacked in June in the Lincoln Park neighborhood along Clark Street while walking to a dental appointment. “He...

Chicago news outlets have published and aired seemingly endless images and videos from inside the South Shore apartment building raided by federal immigration agents this week. You’ve undoubtedly seen them: doors hanging open, apartments torn apart, and hallways left in disarray after the feds left. What the outlets haven’t shared is what the building looked like before the raid. The pre-raid videos, posted by Wayne Head, who identifies himself as a former maintenance person at the building, reveal apartment doors splintered and hanging open, deadbolts ripped out. Security camera lenses were covered with thick coats of spray paint to keep...

An unusually long and large flight restriction has been placed on the Chicago area for several days, a move officials say was sparked by a "credible threat" of attacks on law enforcement. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed a temporary flight restriction was put in place “at the request of the Department of Homeland Security." The restrictions include aircraft from the surface to 400 feet, citing "security reasons." The restricted zone extends in a 15-nautical-mile radius stretching from downtown Chicago to north of Evanston, west of Elmhurst and south of Dolton. "Pilots who do not adhere to the following [procedures] may...

BROADVIEW, Ill. (WLS) -- Federal agents were seen clashing with demonstrators outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Friday morning. Chopper 7 was over the scene near 25th and Lexington, where at least eight demonstrators appeared to be detained. The pushing, shoving and apparent arrests happened shortly after 9 a.m., and it there is no sign of it not letting up. That clash came after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino were seen on the ICE facility's roof just before 8 a.m. Noem and Bovino were accompanied by several...

The Trump administration has put on hold $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. Vought’s announcement comes on the heels of two other moves by the Trump administration during the federal government shutdown targeting funding in cities and states led by Democrats. The Department of Transportation has frozen $18 billion in federal funding for two major infrastructure projects in New York City. The Energy Department cancelled nearly $8 billion in funding for projects in states won by Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Vought on Wednesday first revealed that the Department of...

More than 800 illegal immigrants have been rounded up and arrested by federal police from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol during a September operation targeting Illinois and Chicago. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday afternoon that federal agents and officers deployed to the blue state as part of Operation Midway Blitz since Sept. 8 have arrested more than 800 people illegally residing in the United States. "The Trump Administration will not allow violent criminals or repeat offenders to terrorize our neighborhoods or victimize our children and innocent Americans," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin...

When federal agents led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a South Shore residential building early yesterday, it understandably raised eyebrows. So what was that all about? And why was that particular building targeted? On Tuesday night, Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) claimed on Twitter that the Venezuela-based street gang Tren de Aragua was behind it. “TdA’s took over the building,” Lopez wrote, adding, “they will not be missed — except by @ChicagosMayor & the Leftinos!” In fact, CWBChicago has learned the building raided by the feds was the site of a murder where a migrant was shot dead while...