Stacey Wescott is a visual journalist with the baiduhai. She covers a wide-array of subjects from breaking news to sports to long-term investigative projects. Wescott was part of the Tribune team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for “Gateway to Gridlock,” a series about the chaotic American air traffic system.
Federal immigration agents again deployed tear gas on Chicago streets Saturday morning, despite mounting scrutiny from a federal judge over their use of the chemical weapons.
Tribune veteran photographer Stacey Wescott details how she captured an image of an ex-Marine protesting in front of an ICE facility in Broadview that became a sensation on the internet.
An Elgin man who was born in Texas said he was handcuffed and placed in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle, as part of the latest Chicago-area ICE blitz.