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Available reporting and public dashboards show widely varying totals for Chicago-area spending tied to migrants and undocumented immigrants since 2020: municipal vendor-contract counts exceed $600 mil...
The claim that is not supported by the available reporting; official and journalistic sources show homicide counts in the hundreds for recent full years and significant declines year-over-year, not th...
Chicago’s official data and city officials report in homicides, shootings, and several other major crimes through the first half of 2025, with police figures citing a roughly alongside reductions in r...
Chicago’s official policy bars routine Chicago Police Department (CPD) cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), reinforced by the city’s Welcoming City Ordinance and a series o...
Baltimore’s murder rate in 2025 remains higher than Chicago’s by several commonly cited measures, though both cities report year-over-year declines in homicides in 2025. . The comparison is constraine...
National coalitions and progressive groups — notably Indivisible, 50501 Movement and MoveOn — plus allied civic organizations like the ACLU are cited repeatedly as organizers or facilitators of the No...
From 2020 through mid-2025, available reporting indicates , but direct numerical comparisons to the national average are limited by gaps and scope differences in the sources. Local officials credit ci...
Federal immigration enforcement in the Chicago area has surged in recent weeks, producing high-profile arrests, confrontations with protesters, and judicial scrutiny of detention conditions; . The sit...
The October 18 No Kings rallies did not feature a single, universal roster of “main speakers”; and reporting highlights local leaders and elected officials rather than a centralized national lineup. C...
Federal officials credited Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and broader DHS activity with recent drops in Chicago crime, but independent city data show the downward trend began before CBP agents ar...
Chicago’s limits on local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are set by citywide policies — notably the Welcoming City Ordinance and a recent “ICE Free Zone” executive ord...
Several national and local politicians publicly the No-Kings rallies, including mayors such as Brandon Johnson and Michelle Wu, Senator Raphael Warnock, Representative Jamie Raskin, Governor JB Pritzk...
Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg of Indivisible are the most consistently named national organizers associated with the No Kings 2.0 initiative, joined in public lists by leaders from MoveOn and the ACLU...
Operation Midway Blitz is not a Biden administration initiative; sources in the provided packet consistently identify it as launched under the Trump administration and executed by federal immigration ...
The reporting provided identifies a mix of as drivers of the No Kings protests: Indivisible, Public Citizen, the ACLU and a coalition partner identified as 50501 are repeatedly named alongside hundred...
The main disputed claim is that George Soros’ foundations the nationwide "No Kings" protests via a $7.61 million grant to Indivisible; contemporaneous local reporting instead attributes organization a...
Government officials’ responses to the “No Kings” rallies range from public opposition and participation by some local leaders to limited explicit engagement from higher-level officials; , while broad...
Government officials issued both public condemnations and expressions of support for the October 18 "No Kings" protests: Democratic mayors and senators publicly backed the demonstrations as defense of...
The available reporting shows a from government officials to the October 18 "No Kings" protests: some local and state leaders joined or praised the demonstrations, while national Republican figures an...
The available reporting shows ; coverage instead emphasizes broad grassroots participation, local organizers, allied unions, and some elected officials speaking at events. Major claims of prominent en...