CHICAGO - Immigration advocates and elected officials in Chicago urged vigilance and resilience among immigrant communities following reports of the city being the target of deportation raids by the incoming Trump administration in the coming days.

The 59-year-old man was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head about noon Friday inside a home in the 3900 block of West 104th Street, Chicago police said.

The Chicago City Council blocked a proposal to allow Chicago police to aid in federal immigration enforcement. The proposal would have allowed Chicago police to “work with federal immigration officers or agencies” when someone is arrested or convicted for “drug-related activities,

There was a new warning from Chicago police Wednesday about an uptick in pick pocketers targeting people in the Loop.

Jon Burge, Ronald Watts and Reynaldo Guevara — former police officials implicated in scores of wrongful conviction cases — continue to haunt Chicago taxpayers.

In all, the settlements approved Wednesday account for nearly half of the city’s annual $82 million budget to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.

Any hopes of the City Council having a quiet start to 2025 after a bruising budget battle will likely evaporate at tomorrow's meeting when an effort to weaken the city’s sanctuary status is called for a vote.

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A person was critically injured from a fire on the Northwest Side Wednesday morning, Chicago police said. Police officers responded at about 12:52 a.m. to the 2300-block of North Meade Avenue with firefighters on the scene fighting a fire.

A southwest suburban man accused of assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Friday to three years in federal prison.

The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.