State lawmakers passed a $1.5 billion funding package early Friday to avoid massive service cuts and layoffs at the CTA, Metra and Pace.

Another week of being so proud of the great work by the @BlockClubCHI team: This Week In Photos: Bovino's Day In Court, Feds Continue To Tear Gas Neighbors https://t.co/G63lIWmRHi

Border Patrol has now arrested more than 50 people in the O’Hare rideshare lot raids between Oct. 10-29. Usually DHS alleges detainees have committed various crimes but doesn’t respond to follow ups asking for their names, which would allow us to actually look up court records

Get ready! Two-way traffic around Logan Square is set to begin Nov. 6. It’s arguably the most anticipated part of the project — and the most confusing. For a refresher, I broke down how the new pattern will work and why the city chose a two-way design.

JUST IN: Attorneys are alleging Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino violated a federal judge’s restraining order when he personally threw tear gas canisters during an immigration enforcement action in Chicago’s Little Village this morning They included this still image:

Many complaints to 311 were closed soon after they were made and labeled both “completed” and “active case,” according to records we reviewed. Here are some of them:

South Shore residents made thousands of distress calls to city dispatchers in the years before a massive federal raid at their building. The building averaged one 311 call every 3 days and more than one 911 call every day for almost five years. https://t.co/hSde8Hxn2F

Caldwell's contract opened doors for other Black vendors to work inside pro ballparks. He kept his businesses based on the South Side. When we met he wore a perfectly pressed suit and said he was "semi-retired" even though he still worked everyday. This always stuck with me:

Joseph Caldwell, who ran the first Black-owned company to clean MLB jerseys, died earlier this month at 92. His company, TailoRite, held onto the contract with the White Sox for 3 decades and counting. “I needed to do a perfect job,” he told me in 2022. https://t.co/JidVxKGWoP

Among millions in federal contracts for immigration enforcement in the Chicago area: "In September, Southwest Side company Burhani Enterprises, which is minority owned, was awarded $33,470 for a pizza oven and flat top griddle by Border Patrol."

Attorney Scott Sakiyama was the spokesman for Paul Ivery, a cafeteria worker who feds quickly dropped charges against related to protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview. “He’s encouraging people to continue to peacefully protest,” Sakiyama said at the time.

UPDATE: Federal agents detained at least 7 people — including 2 U.S. citizens — and pepper-sprayed a man near the Little Village/Cicero border, officials said. https://t.co/CX1LRkHPC5

It's called journalism.

"Peaceful protests of government actions are constitutionally protected speech deserving of the highest protection, not intimidation by the military," former four-star admirals and generals wrote in an amicus brief supporting the state of Illinois.

"My daughter would not want to be associated with this." The mother of Katie Abraham speaks out about how her daughter's tragic death has been used as a justification for "Operation Midway Blitz." https://t.co/aadCvXmPDr

A Chicago high schooler had just returned from chemotherapy. Then ICE arrested her father. https://t.co/rJlV9dFfOt

Chicago has filed 8 lawsuits so far against the Trump admin in its second term. That includes one today against new Department of Homeland Security rules that could cut $10M in counterterrorism + disaster funding if city doesn't axe diversity programs. https://t.co/1GruxHwQ7o

His houseboat anchored off Navy Pier was hard to miss this summer. So this is the story of Matt Jonkman: Army vet, cybersecurity inventor who made millions, survived a near-fatal plane crash and retired young to a boat on Chicago's most famous water.⬇️ https://t.co/yMU9HC5Gaz

🧵Hi, I'm the @propublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few mins ago & the end of the protest is nowhere in sight @BlockClubCHI