April 28 – A car drives into a building used as an after-school camp in Chatham, killing three children and a teenager. Police state the driver may have suffered a medical emergency that led to the crash.[4]
June 25 – A fire at an apartment building in Austin, Chicago kills four residents and injures three. A man is arrested and charged with arson. Investigators say the suspect was intending to kill his ex-girlfriend and a friend she was saying, though neither were in the building at the time.[5]
July 2 – Four people are killed and 14 injured in a Chicago drive-by shooting.[6]
July 31 – Governor Pritzker signs a bill requiring all public school students from grades 3 through 12 to undergo annual mental health screenings. The law makes Illinois the first state with mandated mental health screenings for students.[7]
August 30 – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs an executive order forbidding local police from aiding in federal immigration enforcement in response to President Trump saying he would send troops to the city.[9]
September 8 – The Department of Homeland Security begins an operation dubbed "Operation Midway Blitz", which the department says will target "criminal illegal aliens".[11]
September 12 – ICE agents kill undocumented immigrant Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Forest Park after he allegedly drags an officer with his car during an attempted arrest.[12]
October 4
Governor Pritzker announces that the Department of Homeland Security is planning on federalizing the Illinois National Guard and sending guardsmen to Chicago, against the wishes of him and Mayor Brandon Johnson.[13]
Border Patrol agents shoot and injure a U.S. citizen while on patrol. The DHS says the woman was part of a group who boxed in agents with ten vehicles.[14] DHS initially says officers shot the woman because she had a firearm, but later say they shot her because she attempted to drive a car into an agent.[15]
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