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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...
Charlie Kirk attended Wheeling High School in suburban Chicago and graduated in 2012, according to multiple biographical profiles and local reporting . That fact is consistently reported across source...
Charlie Kirk was born in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights on October 14, 1993 . He was raised in nearby Prospect Heights and the broader suburbs of northwest Chicago, where he attended Wheeling...
Available reporting shows the Sept. 30, 2025 raid at 7500 S. South Shore Drive resulted in 37 arrests by federal authorities and multiple credible accounts that U.S. citizens were temporarily detained...
Chicago’s official year-end homicide count for 2023 reported by the Chicago Police Department and widely cited in local reporting was 617 homicides (down from 709 in 2022), with police-data tallies of...
A cluster of news reports corroborates that federal immigration agents, including Border Patrol personnel, conducted enforcement actions in Chicago’s Old Irving Park and nearby areas in late October 2...
Reporting shows sharp public scrutiny and courtroom limits on ICE’s use of tear gas in 2025, but the available sources offer limited direct detail about formal tear-gas training curricula for ICE agen...
Federal immigration agents in Chicago repeatedly used tear gas and pepper/“pepper ball” projectiles to disperse protesters and bystanders during clashes around the Broadview ICE processing center and ...
set up near did offer free (and other services) to pre-registered patients during the first two days of the convention, but the clinic was an independent operation and not sponsored by or officially a...
Ed Bambas is the subject of widespread local and national coverage after a viral video and GoFundMe organized by influencer Samuel Weidenhofer raised about $1 million to let the 88‑year‑old retire; re...
The Department of Education under President Trump implemented changes tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that—according to numerous news outlets—exclude many nursing programs from the admi...
Available reporting shows no single definitive total labelled “Chicago spent on illegal immigrants since 2020,” but multiple outlets and data portals place city vendor payments and combined city/state...
Claims that “Chicago has the highest murder rate among U.S. cities” are contested in recent reporting and depend entirely on which dataset, city sample and population cutoffs are used: some analyses o...
Chicago is experiencing simultaneous high‑profile legal and security developments, localized violent incidents, and a busy cultural/events calendar. Key verified claims include a federal judge’s preli...