"Other neighborhoods are also seeing a burst of grassroots opposition to the federal presence. In heavily Hispanic Belmont-Cragin, about a dozen teachers gather twice a week outside their school, holding signs that read “Hands Off Chicago” and “Nadie es ilegal,” or “Nobody is illegal.”
‘Holy nuisances’
Faith leaders and veteran immigrant rights groups had been bracing for Operation Midway Blitz long before federal agents arrived. In January, when Trump vowed to send ICE to Chicago the day after he took office, churches and nonprofits began holding Know Your Rights workshops and training businesses to respond if immigration agents showed up at their doors.
They pass out whistles with clear instructions: short bursts if ICE is in the area; a long note if someone is being detained. The whistles — which are both warning devices and emblems of the organizing effort — have popped up across Chicago. At least three parents of students have been detained by ICE, the teachers said."
~ Kim Bellware, Ben Strauss and María Luisa Paúl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/23/ice-chicago-resistance-immigrants/
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