10/3/2025 — WHAT WE’VE HEARD TODAY:
The TRiiBE is working in collaboration with indie investigative newsroom Unraveled Press and alt-weekly Chicago Reader to bring you confirmed sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents in the Chicago area.
Federal and local police crushed an anti-deportation protest outside the ICE “processing” facility in Broadview this morning. As was the case on Saturday, the federal response was led by Border Patrol, and included agents from ATF and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. State troopers, Cook County Sheriff’s deputies, local police, and officers from the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System (NIPAS) assisted the feds with crowd control and arrest support.
Multiple protesters were arrested, many transported from the scene in CCSO wagons. The CCSO has confirmed five arrests. An unknown number of protesters are in Border Patrol’s custody.
Last night, state police, in coordination with the sheriff’s office and Broadview Police Department, constructed a so-called “free speech zone” along Beach Street to corral protesters and press into a designated area. But protesters primarily gathered today on Harvard Street and 25th Avenue where ICE vehicles were seen leaving and returning.
This afternoon, Chicago Ald. Jesse Fuentes (26th Ward) was handcuffed and detained by ICE agents inside the emergency room at Humboldt Park Health. Video shows the alderperson asking agents if they had a judicial warrant for a man’s arrest before an agent violently spins her around and handcuffs her.
Mayor Brandon Johnson called ICE’s tactics “abusive,” and said Chicago’s elected officials will continue to stand with residents against “this attempt to stoke fear and intimidation.”
“Chicago’s elected officials have a First Amendment right to document ICE’s actions and to inform their constituents of their rights without federal interference. Any attempt to block this work is a direct attack on democratic accountability and an assault on the rights of the people of Chicago,” Johnson said in a press statement. “ICE detained a sitting elected official while raiding an emergency room. Earlier this afternoon, they deployed tear gas indiscriminately in the middle of a city street.”
Despite the protest in Broadview, ICE and CBP were busy on the Northwest and Southwest sides of Chicago. Agents deployed gas canisters in the middle of the 3500 block of Armitage Avenue around midday, less than 500 feet from Funston Elementary School.
7:00 a.m. — In the first of four alerts issued this morning by Northwest Side Rapid Response, three ICE agents wearing camouflage uniforms detained an “older Korean man” near Leland and Knox avenues.
8:00 a.m. — Southwest Side Rapid Response reported that federal agents detained three people near 43rd Street and Christiana Avenue. The group says that at least five people in total have been detained this morning from the Back of the Yards, Brighton Park, and West Lawn neighborhoods.
8:20 a.m. — ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents detained a man at the corner of Leland and Lawndale avenues, according to Northwest Side Rapid Response.
9:00 a.m. — Another man was detained by three federal agents at Tripp and Fullerton avenues, according to Northwest Side Rapid Response. On the Southwest Side, a man was taken from outside the Home Depot at 47th Street and Western Avenue.
9:55 a.m. — Three masked agents questioned a street vendor at Lockwood and Fullerton avenues. They reportedly asked her for documentation to prove her immigration status, which she was able to provide, and was not detained.
11:50 a.m. — Video shows Border Patrol agents throwing gas canisters a little before noon today, as their vehicles sat blocked on Armitage Avenue near Drake Avenue. A witness tells us that the gas entered their car, making it difficult to see and breathe. At the time the street was crowded with pedestrians and onlookers.
Agents let off the gas only a few hundred feet east from Funston Elementary School, which sits at the corner of Armitage and Central Park.
