Anti-ICE protests in Chicago

I was in the Chicago Loop this afternoon. I teach an economics class on
Tuesdays; the school is in shared office space on the 27th floor of a
high rise with a great view of Lake Michigan.

Half a dozen federal security SUVs were next to the federal jail but I
didn't see protestors there. They were in federal plaza, then joined a
separate protest in the east Loop at the high rise with immigration
court in it. From my highrise, I could see them marching in the middle
of the street toward Michigan Avenue. A frustrated driver at another
intersection ignored police instructions to turn, instead driving into
protestors. She knocked one woman down but wasn't charged.

By the time I left, they supposedly had 1000 people.

There was graffiti on the Art Institute and on several municipal
vehicles.

Around here, ICE had taken about two dozen or so into detention who had
received messages ordering them to report to an ICE office. Others had
been detained at immigration hearings.

ICE isn't touting any high-value criminals here.