Stories in Illinois
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“Urgency was left in the dust long ago”—few answers from Chicago police superintendent on department collaboration with ICE
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling defended his officers’ actions amid the Trump Administration’s mass deportation campaign in Chicago, waving off community criticism as people not having an “open mind.”
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“Pressure, influence, and intimidation”—house call by former Chicago cop sparks dispute among police oversight officials
Retired Chicago police sergeant Lee Bielecki’s snooping at the home of a member of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability is part of a pattern of intimidation and attempts to influence the nomination process for the commission, activists and police district councilors say.
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Border Patrol agents ignored orders to end car chase before gassing Chicago neighborhood
DHS claimed federal agents intentionally hit a fleeing vehicle to try to stop the driver in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood last October—but videos of the 18-minute high-speed pursuit show they actually blew a tire and crashed after ignoring a supervisor’s commands to end the chase.
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Cook County State’s Attorney has “taken no action whatsoever” against feds, new lawsuit alleges
The suit seeks the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents in Illinois.
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CPD leaders knew cop proposed hiring hitman to kill fellow detective, new federal lawsuit alleges
The lawsuit alleges an officer faced years of violent abuse and threats at the hands of another detective while top brass and city officials have refused to investigate or discipline him.
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Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, Thomas Parsons, have now been identified via public records released by the City of Evanston.
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“Nobody deserves to go through what I went through”
Ex-Waukegan cop, convicted of felony misconduct for 2019 beating, gets jail time on delay.
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Ex-Waukegan cop guilty of official misconduct, cleared on aggravated battery charge
Lake County judge returns mixed ruling in the first of two criminal trials against ex-police officer Dante Salinas.
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Aggravated battery trial begins for ex-cop also accused of murder
Fired Waukegan police officer Dante Salinas faced trial Monday on felony charges stemming from an August 2019 arrest in which he’s accused of breaking bones in a man’s face. He faces separate murder and manslaughter charges for fatally shooting a Black teen in October 2020.
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What happened to Silverio Villegas González
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.