Overview

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s executive order blocks ICE from using school parking lots, libraries, parks and other municipal sites for staging, processing or operations.
• City departments must identify affected locations and post official notices within five days, with attempts to use city property directed to the mayor’s office and corporation counsel.
• The administration will distribute standardized signs and invites businesses, landlords, tenants and community institutions to voluntarily mark private property off-limits for civil immigration enforcement.
• Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said officers will not arrest federal agents as the city evaluates enforcement options, and Johnson vowed to take the federal government to court over violations.
• Illinois and Chicago filed suit to halt the federal deployment as the White House condemned the city’s move, while DHS reports more than 900 arrests since Sept. 8 under the ongoing enforcement campaign.