this is such a good story with more insight into how premeditated the South Shore raid was.

h/t Sun-Times and BEZ

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Thank you for sharing!

Crucially, this story came out of reporting a larger piece, which uses interviews, firsthand observations, court documents, emails to detail the building’s squalid conditions, that the city knew about, long before the raid & the migrants who were targeted

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Story link:

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Remnants of the raid and interviews with people like this man reveal some hints about what feds may have known about residents beforehand, including a mysterious map (recreated example below) we found in the building, & an apparent sticker system to mark doors.

During the Sept. 30 military-style raid on a South Shore building, a man heard a knock at his door. It wasn’t an ICE agent, but a mom and girl pleading for help. He let them in and hide under his bed. 🧵

Great profile by @mariahwoelfel.bsky.social of a mayor trying to deal with having a notorious ICE facility — and protests — in her normally low-key suburb of Chicago www.wbez.org/immigration/...

He's one of a handful of local doctors, w/ Jewish Voice for Peace, calling on lawmakers to block bomb sales to Israel and speak out against famine in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank.

Read the story, but most importantly, press play👂
www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Chicago doctor Thaer Ahmad will never forget one of the 1st times he declared a patient dead in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, after a father carried in his three lifeless daughters.

Those girls weigh heavy on Ahmad's mind as he demands action from Illinois politicians.
www.wbez.org/politics/202...