Police and demonstrators square off during a protest outside of the immigration processing and detention facility on October 11, 2025 in Broadview, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images

As attorneys face off in courtrooms and federal agents on the ground clash with protesters, Chicago is being cemented as the epicenter of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown after a flurry of developments in the last 24 hours.

Now — with the city heading into its first weekend since a fence outside the Broadview immigration enforcement facility has come down, and with the director of ICE’s Chicago field office ordered to appear in court Monday — the stage is set for a reckoning on crowd-control measures.

Several developments on Thursday put the Windy City under the national spotlight, inclu

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