Dan Lambert
@danlambert.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Digital at WTTW News in Chicago.
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NEW TONIGHT: Mayor Brandon Johnson is scheduled to appear on “Chicago Tonight” Tuesday to discuss the city’s budget after City Council members approved a version that he fiercely opposed.
The show airs at 5:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and streams on-demand online. https://to.wttw.com/3Lhpaeb
The show airs at 5:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and streams on-demand online. https://to.wttw.com/3Lhpaeb
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
NEW TONIGHT: Mayor Brandon Johnson is scheduled to appear on “Chicago Tonight” Tuesday to discuss the city’s budget after City Council members approved a version that he fiercely opposed.
The show airs at 5:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and streams on-demand online. https://to.wttw.com/3Lhpaeb
The show airs at 5:30 p.m., 10 p.m. and streams on-demand online. https://to.wttw.com/3Lhpaeb
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A federal jury determined Chicago police officers did not violate the civil rights of the Chicago man they shot during a February 2020 incident in the Grand Red Line CTA station, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
Jury Rejects Lawsuit Filed by Man Police Shot in CTA Red Line Station
A federal jury determined Chicago police officers did not violate the civil rights of the Chicago man they shot during a February 2020 incident in the Grand Red Line CTA station, records show.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A federal jury determined Chicago police officers did not violate the civil rights of the Chicago man they shot during a February 2020 incident in the Grand Red Line CTA station, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
A new investigation today from @ndblumberg.bsky.social focuses on Roseland Hospital.
On Oct. 3, a man was taken to the ER after reporting he was a danger to himself and his wife.
Because he was experiencing thoughts of suicide, regulators say he should've been monitored at all times. He wasn't.
On Oct. 3, a man was taken to the ER after reporting he was a danger to himself and his wife.
Because he was experiencing thoughts of suicide, regulators say he should've been monitored at all times. He wasn't.
Roseland Hospital Failed to Monitor a Patient During a Mental Health Crisis, Regulators Say. Now He’s Charged With Killing His Wife
Since 2023, Roseland Community Hospital has received at least four immediate jeopardy citations. That warning is the most serious deficiency a health care facility can be cited for, according to feder...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A new investigation today from @ndblumberg.bsky.social focuses on Roseland Hospital.
On Oct. 3, a man was taken to the ER after reporting he was a danger to himself and his wife.
Because he was experiencing thoughts of suicide, regulators say he should've been monitored at all times. He wasn't.
On Oct. 3, a man was taken to the ER after reporting he was a danger to himself and his wife.
Because he was experiencing thoughts of suicide, regulators say he should've been monitored at all times. He wasn't.
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Pooling assets. Cutting fees. Improving returns. Illinois’ pension consolidation is changing the game for suburban communities.
Dive into the numbers in my latest report 👮🧑🚒 Look up your community if you live outside Chicago!
Dive into the numbers in my latest report 👮🧑🚒 Look up your community if you live outside Chicago!
From Skepticism to Savings: Suburban Pension Consolidation Helps Ease Burden for Illinois Taxpayers
Illinois’ consolidation of suburban police and fire pension funds is beginning to pay off, with records showing improved investment returns and significant cost savings for some local governments. Whi...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Pooling assets. Cutting fees. Improving returns. Illinois’ pension consolidation is changing the game for suburban communities.
Dive into the numbers in my latest report 👮🧑🚒 Look up your community if you live outside Chicago!
Dive into the numbers in my latest report 👮🧑🚒 Look up your community if you live outside Chicago!
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For those of you into positive vibes and quality public programming, might I suggest you consider the fine people at @wttw.bsky.social this #GivingTuesday #GivingNewsday? secure.wttw.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
For those of you into positive vibes and quality public programming, might I suggest you consider the fine people at @wttw.bsky.social this #GivingTuesday #GivingNewsday? secure.wttw.com
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A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday.
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North Center Daycare Teacher Detained by ICE Released From Custody
Diana Santillana Galeano, who had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Clay County, Indiana, was released Wednesday night, hours after a federal judge granted a habeas peti...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday.
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
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Full quote from Ellis:
"The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion." @wttw.bsky.social
"The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion." @wttw.bsky.social
"The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice-hold of violence."
"That is simply untrue," Ellis says.
"That is simply untrue," Ellis says.
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Full quote from Ellis:
"The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion." @wttw.bsky.social
"The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue. And the government's own evidence in this case belies that assertion." @wttw.bsky.social
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Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
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A federal judge is ordering Trump officials to address “unacceptable” conditions at the ICE processing facility in Broadview after hearing hours of testimony from detainees detailing overcrowding, a lack of bedding and inadequate food and water.
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Federal Judge Orders Broadview ICE Detention Center to Improve Conditions, Access to Food and Water
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order requiring ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to provide clean bedding mats, toiletries and at least thr...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A federal judge is ordering Trump officials to address “unacceptable” conditions at the ICE processing facility in Broadview after hearing hours of testimony from detainees detailing overcrowding, a lack of bedding and inadequate food and water.
https://to.wttw.com/3JkdbvB
https://to.wttw.com/3JkdbvB
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Since 2019, the Chicago Police Department has operated under a consent decree.
WTTW News has spent the last few months diving deep into why reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve, and you can find it all here. 🧵🔽
WTTW News has spent the last few months diving deep into why reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve, and you can find it all here. 🧵🔽
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WTTW News dives deep into why consent decree reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Since 2019, the Chicago Police Department has operated under a consent decree.
WTTW News has spent the last few months diving deep into why reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve, and you can find it all here. 🧵🔽
WTTW News has spent the last few months diving deep into why reform is so slow and how policing in Chicago continues to evolve, and you can find it all here. 🧵🔽
Testimony continues today as part of a lawsuit brought by the MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois asking for a temporary restraining order to address what they claim are “inhumane and unlawful conditions” at the Broadview facility.
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Broadview ICE Facility Lacks Beds, Showers, Adequate Food as Detainees Detail ‘Inhumane’ Conditions to Federal Judge
The MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit alleging ICE officials are denying detainees access to their attorneys and subjecting them to mistreatment and overcrowding. Feder...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Testimony continues today as part of a lawsuit brought by the MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois asking for a temporary restraining order to address what they claim are “inhumane and unlawful conditions” at the Broadview facility.
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FULL STORY: Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino will not appear in court Wednesday for what was to be the first of his daily check-ins with a judge after a federal appellate court granted an emergency stay hours before he was set to appear, @bymattmasterson.bsky.social reports for @wttw.bsky.social
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Gets Out of Daily Check-Ins For Now After Appeals Court Grants Emergency Stay
The DOJ filed the motion with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday afternoon, hours before Bovino was set to appear at the Dirksen Federal Building to meet with U.S. District Judge Sara E...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
FULL STORY: Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino will not appear in court Wednesday for what was to be the first of his daily check-ins with a judge after a federal appellate court granted an emergency stay hours before he was set to appear, @bymattmasterson.bsky.social reports for @wttw.bsky.social
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NEW: An Illinois lawmaker put out a call to corrections staff to contact her about incarcerated undocumented people. Months later, she gets a list purporting to be that, and hands it to Kristi Noem. But it appears to be information that DHS already had access to. news.wttw.com/2025/10/24/i...
Illinois Lawmaker Wants to Help Federal Immigration Officials ID Undocumented People in State Custody
In an October interview with a downstate radio station, state Sen. Terri Bryant said she gave a list of undocumented individuals currently being held in Illinois state prisons to Secretary of Homeland...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
NEW: An Illinois lawmaker put out a call to corrections staff to contact her about incarcerated undocumented people. Months later, she gets a list purporting to be that, and hands it to Kristi Noem. But it appears to be information that DHS already had access to. news.wttw.com/2025/10/24/i...
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NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget for 2026 sets aside just $82.5M to cover the cost of resolving police misconduct lawsuits, even though the city has already agreed to spend $90M next year to resolve 176 lawsuits tied to former Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team. @wttw.bsky.social
Johnson’s 2026 Budget Sets Aside Just $82.5M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits, Even Though Chicago Has Already Spent $90M
Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $267 million to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct so far this year, according to an analysis of city data by ...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget for 2026 sets aside just $82.5M to cover the cost of resolving police misconduct lawsuits, even though the city has already agreed to spend $90M next year to resolve 176 lawsuits tied to former Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team. @wttw.bsky.social
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NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...
Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody
To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...
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As we wait for Judge April Perry to rule, here's my full story from this morning's extraordinary hearing, for @wttw.bsky.social:
Federal Judge Appears Skeptical of Reasoning Behind National Guard Deployment in Illinois During Ongoing Hearing
Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
As we wait for Judge April Perry to rule, here's my full story from this morning's extraordinary hearing, for @wttw.bsky.social:
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Perry: "Are you aware that a federal judge found that ICE violated the First and Fourth Amendments rights of peaceful protestors at Broadview?"
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Perry: "Are you aware that a federal judge found that ICE violated the First and Fourth Amendments rights of peaceful protestors at Broadview?"
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president
As National Guard troops are set to be deployed in Chicago as soon as tomorrow, Mayor Brandon Johnson is live on "Chicago Tonight" at 5:30 to discuss the latest developments.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
As National Guard troops are set to be deployed in Chicago as soon as tomorrow, Mayor Brandon Johnson is live on "Chicago Tonight" at 5:30 to discuss the latest developments.
Watch here: to.wttw.com/LiveStream
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Chicago-area journalists and protesters are suing the Trump administration, claiming ICE agents have engaged in a “pattern of extreme brutality” they say is a “concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians” outside the agency’s Broadview processing facility.
Chicago Journalists, Protesters Suing Trump Administration Over Alleged First Amendment Violations at Broadview ICE Facility
The Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Newspaper Guild Local 34071, Block Club Chicago and other media groups filed the suit alongside protesters in federal court alleging their First Amendment rights hav...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Chicago-area journalists and protesters are suing the Trump administration, claiming ICE agents have engaged in a “pattern of extreme brutality” they say is a “concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians” outside the agency’s Broadview processing facility.
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FULL STORY: Federal prosecutors charged two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, with ramming a vehicle driven by a federal agent in Brighton Park on Saturday morning, sparking a heated confrontation between residents & federal agents. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
2 Chicagoans, Including Woman Shot by Federal Agents, Charged with Ramming Border Patrol Vehicle
Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are facing felony charges of “forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer,” federal prosecutors announc...
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October 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
FULL STORY: Federal prosecutors charged two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, with ramming a vehicle driven by a federal agent in Brighton Park on Saturday morning, sparking a heated confrontation between residents & federal agents. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...
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Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed and briefly detained by federal agents inside a hospital on Friday while asking about a patient's ICE arrest warrant.
Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.”
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Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.”
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Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes Handcuffed by Federal Agents While Asking About Patient’s ICE Warrant at Hospital
Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was detained by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health, as tensions continue to rise between local residents and officials and immigration agents conducting enforcement...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed and briefly detained by federal agents inside a hospital on Friday while asking about a patient's ICE arrest warrant.
Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.”
https://to.wttw.com/3Kvoilz
Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.”
https://to.wttw.com/3Kvoilz
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Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of waging a “disinformation campaign” amid their continued use of chemical and less-lethal munitions on crowds outside the agency’s Broadview processing center. https://to.wttw.com/4mIC0yO
‘It All Has to Stop’: Broadview Officials Call on ICE to end Use of Chemical Munitions, Rubber Bullets Amid Protests
Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of waging a “disinformation campaign” amid their continued use of chemical and less-lethal munitions directed at...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of waging a “disinformation campaign” amid their continued use of chemical and less-lethal munitions on crowds outside the agency’s Broadview processing center. https://to.wttw.com/4mIC0yO
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Broadview’s mayor decried the “relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets” by ICE agents on protesters outside a suburban processing facility.
“In effect, you are making war on my community,” she wrote. "And it has to stop.”
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“In effect, you are making war on my community,” she wrote. "And it has to stop.”
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Broadview Mayor Calls on ICE to Stop ‘Making War’ After Using Tear Gas, Rubber Ammo Against Protesters
Mayor Katrina Thompson in a letter to the ICE Field Office Director Russell Hott on Friday claimed ICE’s response to protesters exercising their First Amendment rights outside the Broadview facility i...
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September 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Broadview’s mayor decried the “relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets” by ICE agents on protesters outside a suburban processing facility.
“In effect, you are making war on my community,” she wrote. "And it has to stop.”
https://to.wttw.com/42T9wev
“In effect, you are making war on my community,” she wrote. "And it has to stop.”
https://to.wttw.com/42T9wev
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Officer Joseph Treacy was named in four lawsuits in the past six years that cost taxpayers $524,000, according to a recent analysis by WTTW News. He was one of 272 Chicago Police officers named in multiple misconduct cases since 2019. Here’s some background. 🧵 1/13 news.wttw.com/2025/09/23/r...
Repeated Police Misconduct by 272 Officers Has Cost Chicago Taxpayers $295M Since 2019: Analysis
Chicago taxpayers paid $295 million between 2019 and 2024 to resolve lawsuits naming officers whose alleged misconduct led more than once to payouts, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Officer Joseph Treacy was named in four lawsuits in the past six years that cost taxpayers $524,000, according to a recent analysis by WTTW News. He was one of 272 Chicago Police officers named in multiple misconduct cases since 2019. Here’s some background. 🧵 1/13 news.wttw.com/2025/09/23/r...