Monday, October 13, 2025

The mayor in west suburban Broadview has removed a designated “protest safety zone” from outside the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Immigration advocates say networks of volunteers are documenting what’s actually happening on the ground in and around Chicago. A Northwestern University professor is one of three people awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Plus: After an immigration raid on a South Shore building two weeks ago that resulted in 37 arrests, federal officials blamed an influx of Venezuelan migrants for the building’s dangerous conditions. WBEZ’s Mariah Woelfel and the Sun-Times’ Sophie Sherry recently spent time in the building and bring us another side to the story, from longtime tenants who say the building was in terrible condition long before the migrants moved in.