Immigration news in Chicago

Nelson County, Ky., jailer Justin Hall shows an electric shock glove that is used at his facility, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, in Bardstown, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

Army study found shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear

By Ryan J. Foley

October 6, 2026 at 12:17 p.m.

By RYAN J. FOLEY The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees...

Marimar Martinez, center, listens while her attorney Chris Parente, left, speaks, Oct. 5, 2026, at his Chicago office about filing of a federal lawsuit over her shooting by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz last year. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Lawyers for Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent call for criminal charges

By Jason Meisner

October 5, 2026 at 2:47 p.m.

Attorneys for Marimar Martinez, shot by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz last...

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Sept. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Supreme Court term begins with cases on climate change, immigration and gun rights

By Lindsay Whitehurst

October 5, 2026 at 6:13 a.m.

The Supreme Court’s new term begins Monday with cases on climate change, religious rights and...

María's 6-year-old child stands at the corner of Randolph and Green streets while selling flowers in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood on July 24, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

How children selling flowers have become synonymous with Chicago’s popular corridors: ‘It’s dangerous’

By Allison Kiehl

August 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Experts say that the population of "street-working children" is on the rise in Chicago and...

Sen. Dick Durbin cheers with dreamers on July 22, 2026, at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill in Washington during a mock graduation event to commemorate Durbin’s long advocacy for the Dream Act, a path to citizenship for undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children. Tereza Lee, right, was his inspiration for the legislation. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin sees DREAM Act slipping away: ‘We’ve been on this bill for 25 years’

By Daniel C. Vock

August 2, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

With less than six months left in his legislative career, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, center, answers questions during a news conference Friday at the 95th Street Library in Naperville after conducting an oversight visit of unaccompanied children immigration facility. He was joined by Elizabeth Cervantes, co-founder and associate executive director of the Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project, from left, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Naperville, and Laura Smith, executive director of the Children's Legal Center. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald)

Durbin, Foster decry legal services funding halt for immigrant children

By Carolyn Stein

August 1, 2026 at 2:50 p.m.

Many immigrant children who arrived in the U.S. without parents are losing their legal representation,...

Eva Saltzman stands in downtown Chicago on July 31, 2026. She was fired from her job as a federal immigration judge. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Two more Chicago immigration judges fired as court becomes epicenter of removal orders

By Caroline Kubzansky

July 31, 2026 at 4:44 p.m.

Trump administration officials on Thursday fired two more judges at the Chicago Immigration Court, which...

A “Fall Risk” alert bracelet marks the walker of Anna Fischbein as she speaks about the loss of a beloved Haitian home health care worker whose Temporary Protected Status expired this week, during an interview in her apartment, Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell).

Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the seniors who rely on them

By Gisela Salomon

July 31, 2026 at 8:32 a.m.

As the Trump administration unwinds years of protections for hundreds of thousands of people from...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita talks at a press conference at DriveCo CDL Learning Center in Gary on Thursday, July 30, 2026. Rokita said his office is launching "a serious lawsuit" against the Merrillville Town Council for expressing opposition to a potential ICE detention center in the town. (Maya Wilkins/Post-Tribune)

Indiana AG suing Merrillville for opposing potential ICE facility

By Maya Wilkins

July 30, 2026 at 4:15 p.m.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has taken further action in a dispute with the Merrillville,...

Illinois state Rep. Lilian Jiménez answers a question during the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) press conference about a national push for state legislation allowing lawsuits against ICE on July 29, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Illinois lawmakers seek families hurt by courthouse immigration arrests as more states weigh right-to-sue laws

By Olivia Olander

July 30, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Illinois elected officials in the Latino Caucus and allied advocates are seeking to connect families...

Venezuelan migrant brothers Alfredo Pacheco, left, and José Gregorio González walk out of their apartment in Cicero before driving to University of Illinois Hospital for kidney transplant surgery on Aug. 14, 2025. Gregorio Gonzalez was released from ICE custody to donate a kidney to his brother on April 4, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

ICE detains Venezuelan man who had been released on humanitarian parole to donate kidney to brother

By Laura Rodríguez Presa

July 29, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

Jose Gregorio Gonzalez, a Venezuelan migrant who was temporarily released from ICE detention last year...

Danny Greer, left, Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins, Cordell Walls and Darren Eichler, right, hold a press conference in Forest Park, Oct. 13, 2025, after Greer, Walls and Eichler, all employees of Concordia Cemetery, were detained for hours by federal agents while on private property on Oct. 7, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Forest Park cemetery workers arrested during Operation Midway Blitz seek damages

By Caroline Kubzansky

July 29, 2026 at 5:08 p.m.

A pair of west suburban cemetery workers who were detained at the height of Operation...

Activists celebrate the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling outside of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Deadline passes for Trump to ask Supreme Court to reconsider birthright citizenship ruling

By Lindsay Whitehurst

July 28, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.

The deadline passed Tuesday for the Trump administration to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider...