Illinois
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Illinois (IL) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Illinois counts here.
This is not the same set as Illinois's jurisdiction page, which records the 5 entries where Illinois's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
7 entries · 5 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Chicago city 3 entries
DOJ's Chicago immigration court ordered removal of six unaccompanied minors with pending SIJS applications
On August 26, 2026, an immigration judge presiding over Chicago's downtown immigration court ordered the removal of six unaccompanied immigrant children, ages 12 to 17, despite each having a pending Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) application -- a status Congress created to protect immigrant children who were abused, abandoned, or neglected. Advocates said the court has, since June 2026, been requiring these children to appear every two weeks instead of the periodic check-ins historically used while SIJS applications are pending, and a DOJ spokesperson defended the accelerated pace as needed to reduce the immigration court's case backlog.
ICE detained Chicago man acquitted in Bovino murder-for-hire plot, held him without a hearing for weeks
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took Juan Espinoza Martinez, a 37-year-old Chicago construction worker, into custody on Jan. 23, 2026 -- one day after a federal jury acquitted him of offering a bounty for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino -- and held him at the Clay County Justice Center in Brazil, Indiana without a hearing before an immigration judge. U.S. District Judge James Hanlon ruled Feb. 6, 2026 that the continued detention was unlawful for lack of that hearing and ordered the government to release Espinoza Martinez or grant him a bond hearing.
Border Patrol agent shot Chicago citizen Marimar Martinez five times; DHS's same-day account was contradicted by its own evidence
On October 4, 2025, U.S. Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen and Montessori teaching assistant, five times through her car window in Chicago's Brighton Park after she followed agents' vehicle and honked to warn others of their presence. Hours later DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin publicly said agents had been "rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars" and that Martinez was armed with a "semi-automatic weapon" — claims the next day's criminal complaint, body-camera footage and the agents' own reports did not support. Martinez was charged with assaulting federal officers, the charges were dismissed with prejudice in November 2025, and Exum was placed on paid administrative leave rather than disciplined.
Broadview city 1 entry
Trump federalizes 300 Illinois National Guard troops over Gov. Pritzker's objection, deploying state forces for immigration enforcement
On October 4, 2025, the Trump administration federalized 300 Illinois National Guard troops after Governor JB Pritzker refused a White House ultimatum to voluntarily mobilize them for immigration enforcement at the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago. Pritzker called the demand "absolutely outrageous and un-American."
Brookfield city 1 entry
ICE agent Adam Saracco pushed attorney and activist Robert Held to the ground at Brookfield, Illinois gas station
On December 27, 2025, off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Adam Saracco pushed attorney and immigrant-rights activist Robert Held to the ground at a gas station in Brookfield, Illinois. Held, who is over 60, had followed Saracco's vehicle from an ICE processing facility in Broadview and was filming him when the confrontation occurred.
Evanston city 1 entry
DOJ intervened to halt Evanston's reparations program, calling the nation's first such program unconstitutional
On June 16, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, moved to intervene in a federal lawsuit seeking to halt Evanston, Illinois's reparations program — the first such program in the United States. The DOJ argued the program, which awards $25,000 housing grants to eligible Black residents to address documented historical housing discrimination, violates the Equal Protection Clause and the Fair Housing Act. The intervention joined an existing suit filed in 2024 by non-Black descendants of Evanston residents excluded from the program.
Prairie Grove city 1 entry
Holiday Hills, Illinois police chief charged with felony misconduct for using Flock, LEADS data to track six people he knew
On June 18, 2026, McHenry County, Illinois prosecutors charged William C. Copp, 54, chief of the Holiday Hills Police Department and a part-time Prairie Grove police officer, with two counts of official misconduct after an investigation found he misused Prairie Grove's Flock license-plate-reader system and the Illinois LEADS database to track six people he was personally connected to. Copp resigned as Holiday Hills chief the day of his arrest; a McHenry County judge had denied an emergency stalking no-contact order against him in February 2026, months before the charges were filed.