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Today — 18 October 2025Main stream

Judge Orders Some Federal Agents to Wear Body Cameras in Chicago Area

18 October 2025 at 06:47
The order comes as the Trump administration has carried out an immigration crackdown in the region.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Federal agents clashed with residents of a Chicago neighborhood earlier this week.

Some Chicago Businesses Feeling the Impact of Trump’s Immigration Blitz

18 October 2025 at 00:00
More customers and workers are staying home, they say, leading to lower revenue and worries of wider economic repercussions for the city.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

The Rogers Park neighborhood on Thursday. Business owners in Chicago have said that fewer people have ventured out to stores recently.
Yesterday — 17 October 2025Main stream

What We Know About the Latest ‘No Kings’ Protests Amid Government Shutdown

17 October 2025 at 17:04
The nationwide protests are playing out as a federal government shutdown lingers and troops are being deployed in cities.

© Jordan Gale for The New York Times

Protesters gathered in June for the nationwide No Kings protest in Portland, Ore.

Appeals Court Maintains Block on Trump’s Troop Deployment to Illinois

17 October 2025 at 04:46
“Political opposition is not rebellion,” wrote a Seventh Circuit panel, rejecting an attempt by the Trump administration to remove an order by a trial court judge.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Demonstrators near an immigrant processing center in Broadview, Ill., this month.

JB Pritzker Won $1.4 Million Playing Blackjack in Las Vegas

17 October 2025 at 03:06
The Illinois governor reported the winnings on his 2024 tax returns, which his campaign released this week. “I was incredibly lucky,” he said.

© Sophie Park/Reuters

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said on Thursday that he won $1.4 million playing blackjack on a single trip to Las Vegas last year with his wife, MK Pritzker, and some friends.

Judge Says Immigration Agents Must Wear Body Cameras in Chicago

The federal judge said she was “profoundly concerned” that federal agents might have violated earlier limits that she had set as the Trump administration has carried out an immigration crackdown.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

A federal agent kicked a tear gas canister toward a group of people in Chicago this week.
Before yesterdayMain stream

The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

15 October 2025 at 07:01
A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.

© Evan Jenkins for The New York Times

To put the rodent-shaped impression into context, a team of scientists measured mammal specimens in museum collections.

This Is Un-American

A lot has happened this week. The New York Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury highlights one thing you shouldn’t miss: After President Trump tried to send the National Guard into Portland, Ore., a federal judge blocked him. Watch Kingsbury explain why the president’s actions defy the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution.
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