It was an unseasonably warm fall day in Chicago as an estimated 100,000 demonstrators descended on Grant Park for the second “No Kings” protest of 2025. For more than a month, this city has been at the center of Donald Trump ’s Constitution-defying immigration crackdown . But on Saturday, there was a sense of catharsis—because at least for one afternoon, there was somewhere for all the pent up fear, angst, and outrage of liberal-leaning Chicagoans to go.

Demonstrators packed the park with signs denouncing ICE, which has functioned like an extralegal force here since Trump’s so-called “Operation Midway” began in September. Masked state agents have been pulling people into unmarked vans, conducting raids in school pickup lines and churches and apartment buildings, and responding with vi

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