Fearing federal agents asking to search a Chicago elementary school Friday morning were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, school officials denied them entry. But it turned out they were US ...

Chicago Public Schools Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova, right, walks out of Hamline Elementary School on Jan. 24, 2025, to talk to reporters.

Chicago Public Schools officials had said that at least one immigration officer approached Hamline Elementary School on the city’s Southwest Side late Friday morning, but was not allowed to enter.

Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago public school officials falsely claimed last week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrived at an elementary school, as ...

Gloria Marquez picks up her daughter Natalie, 9, after school from Hamline School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood where reports of ICE agents caused fear in the community, Jan. 27, 2025. (E.

Around 11:15 a.m., the agents attempted to enter Hamline Elementary School, Chicago Public Schools’ Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova said.

Chicago Public Schools prevented officers from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and speaking to students ...