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Security video shows federal agents arresting Joram Núñez Joaquín, the local leader of La Luz del Mundo church, during his morning sermon in Cicero on Sept. 10, 2025. Joaquín was charged in a racketeering indictment in New York with helping church leaders cover up years of child sex abuse. (U.S. District Court records)

Suburban La Luz Del Mundo church leader ordered held in child sex trafficking case

September 15, 2025 at 6:10 p.m.

A federal judge in Chicago on Monday ordered the pastor of a local chapter of the La Luz Del Mundo megachurch held in custody to face federal charges alleging he...

K.J. Johnson chants with others outside of the Great Lakes Naval Station during an anti-ICE demonstration on Sept. 13, 2025, in North Chicago. (Audrey Richardson/for the baiduhai)

Day laborer arrested by ICE at Little Village barbershop petitions court for release

September 14, 2025 at 3:57 p.m.

Willian Alberto Giménez González, who came to Chicago from Venezuela in 2023, was detained Friday when he went to a barber shop in the Little Village neighborhood, according to the...

FBI employees watch as a vehicle is towed from the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a man after ICE says he tried to flee a traffic stop in the car and struck an agent with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Man killed, agent injured as Trump immigration enforcement push takes violent turn in Chicago suburb

September 12, 2025 at 7:04 p.m.

The Trump administration's immigration-enforcement push in the Chicago area took a violent turn Friday.

Attorney Josh Tepfer talks with reporters after a dozen men with convictions connected to disgraced Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts saw their cases thrown out en masse, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Feb. 11, 2020. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson seeks $90M in settlement of suits tied to corrupt cop

September 11, 2025 at 5:19 p.m.

The first-of-its-kind deal, first uncovered by the Tribune in federal court records, would settle all outstanding wrongful conviction cases involving Sgt. Ronald Watts.

Former top aide to ex-Ald. Carrie Austin to plead guilty in corruption case

September 8, 2025 at 4:40 p.m.

A onetime top aide to former Ald. Carrie Austin is set to plead guilty to bribery charges next month alleging they solicited home improvement perks from a developer seeking Austin's...

The Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, left, at Federal Plaza in Chicago on Feb. 4, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Downers Grove man charged with making online threats to shoot immigration agents

September 5, 2025 at 5:15 p.m.

A Downers Grove man who allegedly kept bullets in his home scrawled with the names of political figures was charged Friday with posting a series of increasingly violent social media...

The main gate of Naval Station Great Lakes before sunset on Sept 2, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Feds want 13 1/2 years for ex-Navy sailor who plotted terror attack at Naval Station Great Lakes

September 5, 2025 at 2:15 p.m.

Federal prosecutors are asking for a sentence of more than 13 years in prison for a former U.S. Navy sailor who they say "aspired to be a merchant of death,"...

A U.S. marshal talks with people as security fencing that was installed Thursday night now surrounds the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Sept. 5, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Security fencing at Chicago’s federal courthouse an early sign of Trump immigration push

September 5, 2025 at 5:44 p.m.

One of the first visible signs of President Donald Trump's expected immigration-enforcement push went up overnight in downtown Chicago in the form of 10-foot high fencing surrounding the Dirksen U.S....

Marking the start of the school year, Gov. JB Pritzker, right, greets teachers and staff members at Prairie Oak Elementary School in Berwyn, Sept. 4, 2025. Pritzker was at the school to talk about the impacts of pending federal actions on school communities. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Gov. JB Pritzker, others in Chicago preach peaceful protests as naval base OK’d for immigration enforcement

September 4, 2025 at 8:35 p.m.

As federal immigration enforcement threats continue, Gov. JB Pritzker and others call for peaceful protests to decrease chance President Donald Trump sends military personnel to Chicago.

A bullet-riddled car sits at the intersection of Hubbard Street and Lamon Avenue, where 21-year-old Ernest "Pee Wee" Moore was slain on Dec. 23, 2002, allegedly by members of the Wicked Town gang. (U.S. attorney's office)

Wicked Town gang leaders plead guilty on eve of retrial for racketeering, murder, will receive lighter sentences

September 2, 2025 at 4:03 p.m.

The reputed leader of Chicago’s Wicked Town gang faction and one of his top lieutenants pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy involving a string of murders, shootings and robberies in exchange...

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