Tuesday, September 30, 2025

President Donald Trump told hundreds of the country’s top military officials today that he spoke to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about using “dangerous cities as training grounds” for the military. A small Mexican grocery store in Cicero is pivoting to grocery deliveries as immigration operations continue in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. A WBEZ analysis of federal data for H-1-B visa applications shows which employers in Chicago could be impacted by an executive order that President Trump signed last week. Plus, WBEZ’s Chip Mitchell spent a day with the leader of the People’s Patrol, a rapid-response network that monitors immigration agent activity.