Lilia Rubio went from washing dishes in Utah to working with international heads of state. Now, she tells her story.

My career has gone full circle. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists helped me land my first full-time job some 45 years ago. Latinos and journalists face intense challenges today. After d...

In a year defined by legal threats, political hostility and sudden firings, contributing editor Gretchen A. Peck examines how a culture of fear is reshaping the American newsroom. Her reporting reveal...

“It’s not going to happen,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said.

DHS claims their agents’ actions led to a “historic drop” in crime, but a WBEZ analysis contradicts that claim.

As Affordable Care Act premiums are expected to rise, a single mom expects to become uninsured. Meanwhile, a couple in their 70s plan to keep their insurance but say they can only afford 10 more years...

Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.

As federal immigration agents carry out the president's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Democrat-led Illinois — a "blue state" — a WBEZ and Sun-Times analysis shows other Republican-led "red states" have ...

Guillermo Diaz-Torres told police he couldn't account for the 90-minute period after his shift ended at the controversial ICE processing facility in Broadview and when the crash occurred, per the report obtained by the Sun-Times.

The judge previously forbade federal agents from using tear gas or other “riot control” weapons against people who pose no immediate threat and without two warnings during the immigration campaign. Ho...

The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening in communities across the nation’s third-largest city and its suburbs. Nick Cull, a professor at USC's communications a...

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is requiring officials at the de facto detention center run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide detainees with sufficient hygiene and access to lawye...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget decreases the department by 15%. DCASE is under new leadership after the previous commissioner resigned.

Video purportedly showed two federal agents pulling the woman out of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center at 2550 W. Addison St. about 7 Wednesday morning.

Garcia is defending his decision to help his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, collect petitions to take his place.

The room was built only after city Inspector General Deborah Witzburg was denied an unannounced inspection, underlining the Johnson administration’s lack of transparency, she says.

The allegation came in a late-night court filing Monday as attorneys representing media organizations seek a preliminary injunction restricting the feds' use of force during "Operation Midway Blitz."

Garcia, 69, has been a fixture in Chicago politics for four decades as an alderperson, Cook County commissioner, state senator and two-time mayoral candidate.

Federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants across the Indiana border with commercial driver’s licenses, including some with Illinois commercial driver's licenses, Noem claimed.

In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during the ongoing immigration “blitz.”

Federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants across the Indiana border with commercial driver’s licenses, including some with Illinois commercial driver's licenses, Noem claimed.

Agents took the entire family into custody: Arnoldo Carrillo, 26, Arnoldo’s 53-year-old father, Rosario; Arnoldo's 56-year-old mother, Martha; his 24-year-old sister, Sarai and their 14-year-old brother Eli.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be cut off Nov. 1 unless Congress acts. Here’s a list of food pantries across Chicago and the suburbs.

The request, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, comes four days after ICE agents fired tear gas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood as families and children walked to a Halloween parade.

The second-degree murder conviction against former deputy sheriff Sean Grayson, who is white, carries a potential sentence of between four and 20 years.

The indictment alleges that the six were among a group who surrounded a government vehicle near the Broadview ICE facility Sept. 26 and tried to stop a federal agent from going there and “discharging ...

The top U.S. Border Patrol commander spent an hour on the stand Tuesday, responding to U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' concerns about how federal agents have handled themselves, people they’ve detaine...

Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who has emerged as the public face of President Donald Trump's immigration blitz in Chicago, is in federal court Tuesday.

A Tuesday neighborhood food crawl, Taste of Belmont Cragin, is one of many ways that neighbors and community groups are trying to bring more people through the doors of Latino-owned businesses.

Bovino has become the public face of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago, known as “Operation Midway Blitz.” The judge called him into court one day after attorneys a...

Residents gathered beneath the Little Village Arch on Saturday afternoon before marching down 26th Street, chanting for ICE to leave their community.

The order came one day after Bovino was accused of tossing tear gas into a crowd in Little Village without justification.

Chicago area religious leaders have been hit with tear gas and pepper balls outside the building. They also say immigrants are being denied pastoral care inside the facility.

A former high-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official says masking is "all about intimidation.” A police chiefs association says it can create mistrust.

Feds wearing military-style camouflage gear and gas masks were seen tear-gassing and pepper-spraying protesters during the confrontation near the Little Village Discount Mall.

Two weeks after the Sun-Times first asked about federal immigration vehicles with questionable plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias launched a hotline to report license plate tampering. He said penalties include potential jail time.

Federal immigration agents were seen at multiple locations in the neighborhood Wednesday morning, including along West 26th Street, where at least one person was detained. Dozens of protesters quickly...

Is it an amusement tax on social media, as the city's corporation counsel argues, or one that unfairly singles out the media and violates the First Amendment? Experts are split.

Gil Kerlikowske ran U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he was a longtime Seattle police chief. He says the Border Patrol is not trained for big-city policing.

But the federal judge limited the deposition of Gregory Bovino to “how” federal officers are aggressively enforcing immigration law, not “why” they're doing it in Chicago.

Some faculty see the changes as “voluntary capitulation” to the Trump administration. UIC leaders say they align with “current legal standards” and new University of Illinois System policy.

The billboards are paid for by Win Without War, a grassroots organization that promotes "prioritizes human security and diplomacy after war." They began appearing in Chicago on Oct. 14, but the group has also placed billboards outside Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and its message on mobile…

A workshop that helps Chicago area immigrants navigate the bureaucracy and the stress of returning to Mexico is in high demand.

Anthony Vazquez drew on his experience in the U.S. Marine Corps to report on the Trump administration's ongoing anti-immigration "Operation Midway Blitz."

The plastic whistles have become a way to loudly resist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and warn those who may be in danger.