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Chicago

City and county seat of Cook County, and largest city in State of Illinois, United States of America

Fact-Checks

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Dec 10, 2025
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Is Michelle Obama really a man named Michael Robinson

Multiple reputable fact‑checks and primary biographies reject the claim that Michelle Obama is a man named Michael Robinson: Full Fact and AFP say the “Michael/Michelle” story is false and based on al...

Jan 12, 2026
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How have ICE deployment patterns differed between Democratic-led cities and Republican-led states since 2024?

Since 2024, ICE activity under the Trump administration has shown a clear geographic and tactical split: in Republican-led states and jurisdictions federal enforcement has leaned on arrests inside det...

Dec 8, 2025
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What claims did Deutsche Bank and other lenders have across Trump Organization bankruptcies and settlements?

Deutsche Bank was the Trump Organization’s largest lender for years, holding roughly $340 million in outstanding loans at the time it moved to cut ties, and at different points carried or refinanced l...

Dec 14, 2025

What led to the ICE raid where a 1-year-old was pepper sprayed in 2018?

A family says an ICE/CBP vehicle sprayed a 1-year-old and her parents during a Nov. 2025 operation in the Chicago area after federal agents were conducting immigration enforcement; the Department of H...

Dec 13, 2025

Are ICE agents arresting US citizens.

Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...

Nov 27, 2025

Are ICE agents given a quota and paid by the number of people they arrest?

Reporting in 2025 shows multiple outlets and research groups saying ICE was given numerical arrest targets that led to a big increase in interior arrests — examples include reports of instructions for...

Dec 11, 2025

Who are Charlie Kirk's parents and what roles did they play in his upbringing?

Charlie Kirk was raised in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights by parents often identified as Robert (father) and Kathryn/Kimberly (mother); reporting describes his father as an architect and poli...

Dec 14, 2025

Do ICE agents have high rate of criminal records?

ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...

Jan 17, 2026

Which presidents used the insurrection act

The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...

Oct 6, 2025

Where are a majority of ICE agents right now

Available reporting in the provided dataset does not identify a single location where a *majority* of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are currently situated; instead, the materia...

Nov 30, 2025

Which specific ICE practices have been challenged as unconstitutional and in which court cases?

Courts and advocates have challenged a wide range of ICE practices as unconstitutional — from warrantless detentions and courthouse arrests to detention conditions, mandatory no‑bond policies, biometr...

Nov 14, 2025

Who is paying the agitators protesting ICE in Chicago? How much do these protestors get paid?

Reporting on the Chicago protests against ICE and “Operation Midway Blitz” does not identify any organized program that is paying “agitators” to protest, nor does it provide evidence of standard wages...

Dec 12, 2025

How many people have gone missing in ice custody

Available reporting and advocacy tallies indicate thousands of people have been reported “missing” from ICE/DHS public records since early 2025: a crowd‑sourced tracker claims 5,784 disappeared beginn...

Dec 14, 2025

Do ice agents have more criminal records against them than the immigrants they arrest

Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...

Nov 22, 2025

Has crime in the US gone down since Trump

Available reporting shows violent crime and homicides that rose around 2020–2021 have fallen in 2023–2025, with several city- and national-level data series recording substantial declines (examples: m...

Dec 17, 2025

If Michelle Obama is Michelle Obama, why does her husband called her Michael sometimes

Viral claims that Barack Obama calls Michelle “Michael” or that Michelle Obama was born “Michael” are false; multiple fact-checks show clips were cropped or miscontextualized and no credible evidence ...

Nov 5, 2025

Who is Erica Kirk and where was her orphanage located?

Erika (also spelled Erica) Kirk is a public figure tied to conservative activism and multiple charitable mentions; fact-checking shows she was linked to a Romanian sponsorship project for an orphanage...

Oct 25, 2025

Is ICE kidnapping people off the streets illegally?

The available documentation shows a : federal judges have found and limited unlawful ICE arrests in multiple cases, while ICE’s published policies assert formal detention and oversight procedures. Hig...

Oct 10, 2025

Has ICE killed anyone?

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been directly or indirectly associated with multiple deaths in 2025: at least and several incidents involving lethal force tied to ICE operations or ...

Oct 8, 2025

What is the hiring process for ICE agents and how are applicants screened?

The core claims are that ICE received well over 140,000 applications after a 2025 recruitment push, extended roughly 18,000 tentative offers, and is using financial incentives and marketing to expand ...