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]
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