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Federal agents rappelled out of a Black Hawk helicopter onto the roof of a South Shore Chicago apartment building on Sept. 30, 2025.

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Court records: Chicago immigration raid was about squatters, not Venezuelan gangs

In the documents, Homeland Security said the raid "was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments." There is no mention of criminal gangs or Tren de Aragua.

February 06, 2026
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Renfrow Smith in her cap and gown the day she graduated from Grinnell College in 1937.

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  • Obituaries

Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old.

January 06, 2026
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By:
  • Scott Simon and
  • Ed McNulty
U.S. Marines and National Guard troops patrol the entrance of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles as demonstrators gather on July 4, 2025.

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  • National

Trump will drop push for National Guard deployments in Chicago, LA and Portland, Ore.

Courts blocked troops from deploying in Chicago and Portland, Ore., and the Los Angeles deployment effectively ended after a judge blocked it earlier this month.

January 01, 2026
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  • Alina Hartounian
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court rules against Trump in National Guard case

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor.

December 23, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Lavonne Schaafsma

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  • National

She lost her purse — but strangers stepped in to save the day

On a trip to Chicago, Lavonne Schaafsma lost her purse. Two women saw a man rifling through it — and stepped in to help.

November 17, 2025
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By:
  • Laura Kwerel
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program was created by Congress in 2007 to cancel the federal student loan debts of borrowers who spend a decade working in public service.

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  • Education

Public workers could be denied loan forgiveness if cities defy Trump, lawsuit alleges

A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations have resisted President Trump's policies.

November 03, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Jael Augustin, Ogden International High School, 2019.

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  • Photography

A photographer captures life inside Chicago Public Schools

Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency.

November 01, 2025
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  • Melissa Ann Pinney and
  • NPR Staff
A member of the Texas National Guard stands at an army reserve training facility on October 07, 2025 in Elwood, Illinois.

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  • Law

Confused by the legal battles over troop deployments? Here's what to know

Two significant legal actions — including a possible decision from the U.S. Supreme Court — are expected this week. While both would be preliminary, they could impact how courts weigh in on such cases going forward.

October 23, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
Organizers with the People's Patrol  talk to immigrant kids in Hanover Park, a suburb of Chicago, on October 10, 2025.

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  • USPS

As tensions rise in Chicago, volunteers patrol neighborhoods to oppose ICE and help migrants escape

Several hundred volunteers are patrolling the streets of Chicago and its suburbs warning migrants of ICE's presence. This is part of a growing resistance to ICE's operations in Illinois.

October 17, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and
  • Marisa Peñaloza
National Guard members walk around outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview, Illinois on Oct. 9.

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  • National

Where has Trump suggested sending troops? In cities run by Democratic mayors

In just four months, Trump has suggested or ordered sending federal intervention to nearly a dozen cities.

October 10, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
National Guard Troops stand outside Union Station on September 01, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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  • National

Where things stand with Trump's National Guard deployments

The Trump administration has deployed or threatened to deploy National Guard troops in more than half a dozen American cities that it says are crime ridden.

October 01, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Hartounian
Federal law enforcement agents confront demonstrators protesting outside of an immigrant processing center on September 27 in Broadview, Illinois.

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  • National

Memphis and Portland, Ore. brace for troops. Why Chicago might be next

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the Department of Homeland Security has requested for 100 military personnel to help protect ICE agents and facilities in his state.

September 30, 2025
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  • Juliana Kim
The Chicago city skyline.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: 'Free speech doesn't work just when you agree with it'

NPR's Scott Simon recalls a First Amendment case from the late 1970s involving the rights of a neo-Nazi group to march through a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago.

September 27, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
Marchers at a Labor Day rally in Chicago protested President Trump's threatened National Guard deployment on Monday.

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  • Politics

How Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans are reacting to Trump's National Guard threats

Even after a federal court ruled his use of the National Guard in LA was illegal, the president has weighed sending troops to Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans. Here's where things stand in those cities.

September 05, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks during a news conference at River Point Park, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Chicago.

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  • National

Chicago's mayor pushes back as Trump administration readies immigration crackdown

Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.

August 31, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
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