(Nov 3, 2025)
Warning: Graphic language. Video shows the vehicle collision between federal agents and Dayanne Figueroa in Chicago‘s West Town neighborhood on Oct. 10, 2025. (Provided by Fernando Figueroa)
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Immigration protest takes to streets in downtown Chicago
(17 hours ago)
Protesters gathered in Federal Plaza and marched along downtown Chicago streets Tuesday evening in a demonstration against the Trump administration and raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sabrina Franza reports.
BREAKING: Months of organizing result in a victorious vote for a ceasefire in Chicago! Chicago is the largest U.S. city to vote in favor of a ceasefire resolution
IBM Launches $100 Million Partnership with Global Universities to Develop Novel Technologies Towards a 100,000-Qubit Quantum-Centric Supercomputer
Over the next decade, IBM plans to work with university partners and its worldwide quantum ecosystem to evolve how its quantum processors can be connected via quantum interconnects. This work will aim to enable high-efficiency, high-fidelity inter-processor quantum operations and a reliable, flexible, and affordable system component infrastructure to allow scaling to 100,000 qubits.
IBM‘s collaboration with the University of Chicago will build upon the Chicago area‘s strengths in quantum research. The University of Chicago seeded the region‘s quantum ecosystem more than a decade ago with the decision to make quantum technology a focus of what is now the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.
THIS IS CHICAGO RIGHT NOW. BIPOC YOUTH ARE BEING BEATEN AND ARRESTED RIGHT NOW LIKE WE ARE ANIMALS. THIS IS WHAT YOU ALL CALL POLICE?
„Agitators.“
The following video footage shows the initial incident that sparked yesterday‘s violence and arrests, as well as the aggravated battery against a CPD officer with a skateboard. More video will be released throughout the day as it is received.
Federal agents will deploy to Chicago as part of anti-violence effort; Mayor Lightfoot pushes back against President Trump
The ABC7 I-Team has learned that President Trump will announce a new federal anti-crime initiative Wednesday afternoon. The initiative aimed at combatting violence in American cities, including expanding a federal law enforcement presence in Chicago.
Chicago mayor urges Trump not to send federal officers amid violence
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) urged President Trump on Monday against sending federal law enforcement officials to her city, arguing it would create a “disaster” rather than help keep the city safe.
Rep. Bobby Rush and Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot hold a joint press conference
(today)
Chicago police and city leaders defend handling of protests and looting as questions swirl over response some found lacking
(02.06.2020)
Questions came over the decision to largely seal off downtown, effectively forcing some of the protest action into outlying neighborhoods, and over what appeared at times to be an outnumbered police department’s choice to stand back as looting began.
Tribune reporters observed officers who had been deployed to hot spots to contain a situation keep their posts without engaging looters.
‘Cowards’: Rush Slams Chicago Police Caught Lounging In His Office Amid Looting | All In | MSNBC
Congressman Bobby Rush got word that his office in Chicago had been burglarized. But when he looked at the surveillance tape, he saw a group of up to 13 police officers, helping themselves to coffee, making popcorn, even napping in his office while nearby stores were being damaged and robbed amid protests. Aired on 6/11/2020.
Video shows Chicago police ‘lounging’ in congressman’s burglarized office during looting, mayor says
Several Chicago police officers were captured on video relaxing inside the recently-burglarized office of Congressman Bobby Rush while nearby businesses were looted, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
Surveillance video taken inside the longtime congressman’s South Side campaign office in the early hours of June 1 shows a group of officers sitting, making popcorn and in one case napping, “while small businesses on the South Side were looted and burned,” Lightfoot said.
Chicago, IL: nearly a dozen police officers team up to destroy a car and pull at least one of the occupants out by their head Original poster indicates police stole the car soon thereafter, leaving the driver and another passenger in the lot
(02.06.2020)
Chicago police and city leaders defend handling of protests and looting as questions swirl over response some found lacking
Questions came over the decision to largely seal off downtown, effectively forcing some of the protest action into outlying neighborhoods, and over what appeared at times to be an outnumbered police department’s choice to stand back as looting began.
Tribune reporters observed officers who had been deployed to hot spots to contain a situation keep their posts without engaging looters.
I have viewed the widely shared footage depicting the police-involved shooting at the CTA station. With the strong caveat that one perspective does not depict the entirety of the incident, the video is extremely disturbing and the actions by these officers are deeply concerning.
This is murder. It violates multiple laws and policies. It’s against the law to shoot an unarmed person in the back.
On Video, Chicago Police Shoot Man At Grand-State Red Line Station After He Was Moving Between Cars
Deputy Police Supt. Barb West on Friday night said the officers were assigned to the mass transit unit and observed the man improperly moving between train cars, which is against city ordinance.
Polizeichef von Chicago wegen Trunkenheit gefeuert
Lightfoot hatte im Mai ihr Amt mit dem Versprechen angetreten, der Gewalt in Chicago den Kampf anzusagen. Im vergangenen Jahr gab es 578 Morde in der drittgrößten Stadt der USA nach New York und Los Angeles.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot Fires Police Supt. Eddie Johnson
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has fired Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, after reviewing an inspector general’s investigation into Johnson being found passed out behind the wheel of his car in October. CBS 2‘s Megan Hickey reports.
Sanders-backed DNC plan sparks superdelegate revolt
The resisting superdelegates’ odds of success are long. The proposal has the support of DNC Chairman Tom Perez and two former DNC chairs — former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate. And the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, following months of discussion, voted without dissent on Wednesday to recommend the plan to full DNC. The proposal was backed by many Clinton supporters, as well.
Der Wandel kommt
Diese entstehende Bewegung muss sich mit dem gesamten Spektrum der Gewalt auseinandersetzen. Wie Pfarrer John Dear es ausdrückte: „Das bedeutet, Waffengewalt zu beenden – aber auch Rassismus und Masseneinkerkerung, aber auch Hinrichtungen, Drohnenangriffe und Billionen, die für den Krieg ausgegeben werden, und damit auch die laufenden US-Bombenangriffe und Kriege und die Entwicklung und Bedrohung durch Atomwaffen, und unsere tödlich sündige Gier der Konzerne und natürlich die Zerstörung der Umwelt und all der Kreaturen“.