Week by week, the federal campaign to ramp up immigration enforcement in the Chicago area has created fear and inflamed tensions.

Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, is accused of offering $10,000 for the killing of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander at-Large Chief Gregory Bovino.

Staff members are reporting ICE activity and patrolling areas around their schools and, in some cases, escorting families to and from school.

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Federal agents rappelled onto an apartment building from Black Hawk helicopters in a recent raid. Hundreds more arrived masked in trucks.

Both of these legal items are putting the immigration agency on thin ice during operations in Chicago. A federal court judge has found that ICE is breaking arrest rules that they agreed to three years ago, and is reigning in warrantless arrests of individuals without probable cause.

A Chicago man has been indicted on charges he solicited the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino, but the bare-bones document makes no mention of previous allegations that he is

Tensions over the federal intervention in the city have many runners worried about what to expect during the race, which passes through immigrant neighborhoods and draws many participants from abroad.

Questions have been swirling for weeks over whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might target the Chicago Marathon

Advocates said Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz” affected how some runners trained and whether their families came out to support their efforts.

Federal immigration agents’ use of Naval Station Great Lakes will continue through “at least December,” leaders at Naval Station Great Lakes have been informed, according to an email obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times and a source who was familiar with the plans.