Tom Schuba

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has given employees law enforcement powers, arrests during immigration appointments have surged, and thousands have applied to become "Homeland Defenders" who scrutinize green card applications.

After 14-year-old Armani Floyd's death Friday, his peers at a South Shore after-school basketball group struggled with losing a friend whom they thought of as family. The violence has revived a City Council snap curfew measure vetoed by the mayor in the summer.

Aramis Williams failed a drug test at police headquarters in January 2024, records show. Four months earlier, he was arrested for drunken driving after a woman reported that he groped her at a bar on the Near North Side. Charges were later dropped.

Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.

Employees of DigitalMint, a company that specializes in negotiating ransoms in cyber attacks, were part of a small crew the feds say conducted five hacks that scored more than $1 million.

The Trump administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies. “This is what dystopian nightmares are made of, this kind of continual expansion of surveillance without any real oversight or restrictions,” says Jeramie Scott of the…

“We do have to take this seriously and make sure that we are not collaborating by hiring or benefiting companies that are acting against us,” said 33rd Ward Ald. Rossana Rodriguez.

Border Patrol shoots woman on Southwest Side; agents, protesters battle for hours

The sons of Terry Hillard and Fred Waller have both been stripped of their policing powers pending investigations, the Sun-Times has found.

CoreCivic is looking for administrative workers to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcment in Chicago and at ICE's Broadview processing facility.