Friday October 17, 2025

Illinois State Police say 11 people were arrested this morning outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in suburban Broadview. Members of the NAACP rallied in Chicago against the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops in Black communities. Some Illinois universities are seeing drops in international student enrollment. Plus, as federal immigration agents aggressively detain people all over the city, some Chicagoans are fighting back by forming neighborhood patrols and gathering outside of schools and churches. To help sound the alarm, many of them are arming themselves with whistles. WBEZ’s Anna Savchenko brings us that story.