Top Illinois Democrats have said for months that local police won’t participate in immigration investigations, but they also won’t stand in the way.

As court battles loom over National Guard deployments, the administration demanded that Portland, Ore., do more to secure an immigration facility, and President Trump said the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be “in jail.

A U.S. District Judge has ruled ICE agents violated a consent decree over warrantless arrests in the Chicago area and unlawfully detained more than two dozen people in the first months of Trump's second administration,

ICE officers in Illinois were targeted by two illegal immigrants who tried to use their vehicles as weapons in "deliberate attempts" to hurt them, DHS says.

In late September 2025, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents implemented President Donald Trump's effort targeting immigrants living illegally in the Chicago area, protesters gathered outside an ICE processing facility in the area.

Video showed Noem and her team approaching the Village of Broadview Municipal Building, located in a suburb of Chicago, but being loudly refused by the staff inside

Texas National Guard deploys to Illinois to protect ICE officers after surge in attacks, as Tom Homan warns anti-ICE rhetoric fueling violence.