ICE Tells North Side Alderperson To Back Off As She Warns Neighbors About Immigration Agents Masked agents approached Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez and her chief of staff in an alley, where they were told they were impeding ICE activities and being issued a warning.

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Thank you Block Club for helping to document this experience, which is happening dozens of times each day across our city.

This morning I responded to calls from our local rapid response network indicating that ICE was in our community attempting to kidnap our neighbors. When I found ICE on site, my Chief of Staff and I followed them, demanding that they provide us with proper identification.

Resisting ICE In Chicago: North Side Leaders Hosting Emergency Town Hall On How To Fight Back blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/18/r...

This morning the Chicago Commission on Human Relations convened a hearing to witness testimony regarding reported increases in antisemitic hate crimes in Chicago. Alderperson Rodriguez Sanchez provided these remarks as opening testimony.

Join us to celebrate the launch of the 33rd Ward Participatory Budgeting committee for 2025! Roosevelt High School Library, 3:30-5:00pm on Sep. 11. You can join the committee or submit ideas for consideration by the committee at www.33rdward.org

Thank you to the researchers, advocates, and community leaders that have provided us with this important information.

I am proud to have stood against expanding ShotSpotter and will always fight for investment in community safety solutions that work like crisis support workers, CARE teams, housing, and programs that empower our neighbors to care for each other.

STREET CLOSURE: The following streets will be closed to traffic for the festival from 7am on Friday, 8/8 thru midnight on Saturday, 8/9:

- Kimball Ave between W Lawrence Ave and W Eastwood, both sides of the street

- Leeland Ave between Kimball Ave and Bernard Ct, both sides of the street.

I am also very excited to invite you to join us at our own local Taste of Albany Park on August 9! This is an extension of the Taste of Chicago and highlights the amazing food of Albany Park. The Taste is free entry and will be hosted along Kimball Ave, between Lawrence and Leeland from noon-8pm.

We need to expand CARE’s hours and staffing, strengthen its ties to mental health clinics, train dispatchers and ensure no one is left screaming on a sidewalk, unseen and unsupported. We’ve built so much already together. We cannot turn back now. Let’s invest in what works and help heal our city.

They’re already diverting crisis calls away from police and toward services that heal, and police departments themselves have welcomed their presence.

CARE teams include mental health professionals, peer support workers and first responders. They bring compassion, not cuffs. They offer support, not punishment. They show up with the training and experience to de-escalate and connect people in a way that fosters caring.

Yesterday, the Chicago Sun Times published an op-ed I authored to advocate for the expansion of Chicago's Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (C.A.R.E.) program.

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Join us this week to learn more about threats to public health funding and our due process rights! You can access committee agendas here: chicityclerkelms.chicago.gov/Meetings/

Elected officials tried to stop ICE from making arrests in the South Loop Immigration advocates and several alderpersons gathered outside the building as the arrests were in progress. They say federal agents detained about a dozen people who had shown up for a routine…

JUST IN: Immigration advocates and several alderpersons gathered in the South Loop as the arrests were in progress. They say federal agents detained about a dozen people who had shown up for a routine immigration appointment.

Thank you to everyone that came today to show support and solidarity, and to document this wrongful attack on our community.

These are mothers, fathers, parents, siblings, and their families will always carry with them the harm that was done today.

This afternoon I had the heartbreaking experience of fighting to defend 12 of our neighbors who were cruelly detained by ICE agents while attending their routine ISAP check-in appointments at the 2245 S. Michigan location.

If you or a family member, a friend, or a neighbor is summoned to court, it is recommended that you first reach out to the ICIRR Family Support Hotline at 855-435-7693.

👍 Trans Lifeline (translifeline.org)
👍 The Trevor Project (thetrevorproject.org)
👍 Immigration Equality (immigrationequality.org)
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Today, in the aftermath of the horrific attack in DC last night, many who are seeking to discredit the progressive movement in Chicago have purposely shared misinformation attempting to connect the shooter to local progressive movement spaces and elected leaders.

Join Israel's Gifts of Hope and Christ Lutheran Church for their annual Good Friday Peace Walk on April 18. Following the walk, their will be lunch and Easter baskets at the church.

Join us tomorrow for a Clean and Green! We will be meeting at 3657 W Lawrence Ave near Nicky's Fruit Market beginning at 9:30am. You can request supplies to host your own community cleanup from our ward office by calling 773-840-7880 or emailing info@33rdward.org.

Street Sweeping 2025 -- Our office is sharing the 2025 Street Sweeping schedule and interactive map produced each year by our ward superintendent. You can view the schedule and map at bit.ly/ward33 or on our website 33rdward.org/streets-and-...

North Side Police Oversight Group Raises Alarm As Funding For Mental Health Response Team Dries Up “We need to make sure we have a way to fund CARE so that it can continue on into the future," one council member said of the push to expand the city’s Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement initiat...

“We need to make sure we have a way to fund CARE so that it can continue on into the future,” one council member said of the push to expand the city’s Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement initiative. blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/27/n... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social