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ICEandimmigrationenforcement
Every meeting we read, on its own date. The bright ones are where an official raised it.
01 — First meeting where it came up
Chicago · Committee on Budget and Government Operations41.88° N · 87.63° W
October 30, 2025
The first meeting in our year where an official raised it. It may not be the first time it came up.
Where an official raised it.
By October 9, 2026, an official we identify by voice had raised ICE and immigration enforcement at 36 of the 290 meetings we read, in 10 public bodies.
What officials said · Dec 18, 2025
Chicago Board of Education
“I’ve met with families over the weekend who are afraid to go to work, they’re afraid to go to the grocery store, and they’re afraid to take their children to school because ICE agents are all over our neighborhoods.”— Emma Lozano, Member · Chicago Board of Education
What officials said · Jan 29, 2026
Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability
“I have personally— I’m from Back of the Yards. I was there when ICE agents ran into the Swaporama.”— Anthony Driver Jr., Commissioner · Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability
What officials said · Apr 2, 2026
Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability
“Because if you’re on the scene and it gets to that, though, and you are there and can identify people who identify themselves as protesters who are physically engaging with federal immigration agents, then again, CPD’s technical legal responsibility would be to make an arrest, correct?”— Sandra Wortham, Commissioner · Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability
What officials said · Jul 20, 2026
Chicago Board of Education
“One of them is, what has been the financial impact on the district by implementing measures to protect our students and families in response to the increased immigration enforcement by the Trump administration?”— Yesenia Lopez, Member · Chicago Board of Education
Chicago city hall · October 24, 2025 to October 9, 2026
ICE and immigration enforcement
- meetings we read where an official raised it
- 36
- meetings we read in all, each a faint light
- 290
Every dot opens its meeting video; every remark plays at the second it was said. All the meetings are drawn at City Hall, one wedge for each public body: the map shows when, not where.
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290 meetings read (28 of them school-board meetings, also on our school-board site) from 34 public bodies · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 9, 2026 · Play the clip
Newest meeting we’ve read: Oct 9, Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic SafetyListed after it, not read yet (video listings through Oct 23): 10
- Nov 210:00 AMCity Council
- Nov 49:30 AMCommittee on Budget and Government Operations
- Nov 59:30 AMCommittee on Budget and Government Operations
- and 7 more