This image captures a key moment of conflict during protests Oct. 4 in Brighton Park after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot a woman that authorities later said chased federal immigration enforcement agents during an operation in the area. It illustrates the escalating tensions between community members and federal agents, showing officers detaining a protester during a skirmish in which they also deployed tear gas and shot pepper balls. It highlights the community’s resistance and the contentious issues surrounding immigration enforcement and civil liberties.
How did you get the photo?
As the skirmish escalated, I focused on physical confrontations between federal agents and protesters. It’s important to document those moments. As officers were attempting to move the crowd back, I saw this protester resisting the order, and soon law enforcement surrounded them. I tried to find angles around the agents to get a clear shot of the individual being detained.
Chicago Police Department officers stand in front federal immigration enforcement agents in the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park on Oct. 4. Protesters arrived at the scene shortly after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot a woman.
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U.S Border Patrol agents detain a protestor near West 39th St and South Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park on Oct. 4.
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Federal agents throw a tear gas canister toward protesters in the street in the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park on Oct. 4, shortly after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot a woman.
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A protester is doused in milk, water, and saline after federal immigration enforcement agents administered tear gas during a skirmish in the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park on Oct. 4.
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Protesters create a line to maintain distance between federal immigration enforcement agents and residents in the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park on Oct. 4.
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People embraces after a protest near West 39th Street and South Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park after U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman in the area on Oct. 4.
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Southwest Rapid Response team member Amanda sits in her Brighton Park yard on Sunday. The day before, Amanda was among the demonstrators who took to the street near West 39th Street and South Kedzie Avenue in response to U.S. Border Patrol agents shooting a woman.
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National Guard members walk around at the ICE facility at 1930 Beach St. in Broadview on Thursday.
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Members of the Texas National Guard at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in far southwest suburban Elwood on Tuesday.
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Members of the Texas National Guard at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in far southwest suburban Elwood on Wednesday.
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Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson stands outside the village of Broadview Municipal Building.
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A small group of protesters rally on Beach Street outside the Broadview ICE processing facility on Wednesday.
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Artist Isabelle Brourman documents the unfolding stand-off between protesters and Illinois State Police by sketching it on the corner of 25th Avenue and Harvard Street near the Broadview ICE processing facility on Oct. 3.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson holds up a signed executive order during a press conference Monday in response to recent ICE operations in the city at the Westside Justice Center in Garfield Park. Under the order, city property — including parking lots next to Chicago public schools, libraries, parks and city buildings — cannot be used as staging grounds for raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling speaks to reporters at CPD headquarters in Bronzeville on Monday. Snelling addressed CPD’s response to a tense Brighton Park scene between protesters and federal agents over the weekend.
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Gov. JB Pritzker looks down at his notes during a news conference Monday in the Loop to discuss federal deployments to Illinois.
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A person sits to the side during a rally Wednesday at Federal Plaza, where workers and Illinois leaders condemned the government shutdown.
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Manager Blake Lanphier stands outside Historic Wagner Farm in Glenview, where he spent the morning at the 18-acre farm unloading five semi-trucks with 28 bins of pumpkins — each bin weighed 800 pounds — for the start of pumpkin season Sept. 29.
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A cow stands in a field across from pumpkins on display at Historic Wagner Farm in Glenview.
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Roberta Fret tries a plasma cutter in a welding class Monday at Prosser Career Academy in Belmont Cragin. Students from neighboring middle schools visited Prosser for a career event for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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A customer looks at the exclusive Chicago drop of a stuffed carrot cake while browsing at the Jellycat Road Trip to Joy shop at Nordstrom inside The Shops at North Bridge on Michigan Avenue on Monday.
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A woman holds a baby as she stands outside an apartment after an extra-alarm fire in the 7000 block of North Rockwell Street in West Ridge on Thursday. Three people were killed and three others injured, according to authorities.
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A clergyman holds a cross in support of Fr. Gary Gray’s pilgrimage from the boyhood home of Pope Leo in Dolton on Monday. The cross-country walk will end at the Statue of Liberty in New York and is a call to action in support of immigrant families affected by the recent increase in ICE detentions.
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Scott Freeman, owner and jeweler at Bryn Mawr Jewelry Company at 5139 N. Clark St. in Andersonville, works on a 18-karat gold solitary engagement ring with a emerald cut diamond.
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2025 MacArthur Genius Grant winner Tonika Lewis Johnson stands at the site of her “unBlocked Englewood” neighborhood beautification project on the 6500 block of South Aberdeen Street on the South Side.
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Artist Blake Lenoir stands on a scissor lift admiring and taking photos of his first finished solo public work called “A Rose Is Still a Rose” painted on a viaduct wall near 5756 W. Madison St. on the Austin and West Garfield Park border.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker appears at a federal workers rally Downtown Wednesday, where he responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to jail him and Mayor Brandon Johnson, saying: “Come and get me.”
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Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church’s John Conner Fellowship Hall is at 7901 S. Stony Island Ave. on the South Side. The shuttered fellowship hall is a Moorish-inspired dream of polychromatic brick and terra cotta that has been a traffic stopper and an architectural curiosity since 1928.
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U.S. Reps. Jonathan Jackson, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Delia Ramirez and Robin Kelly survey the damage left by federal law enforcement at an apartment complex that was recently raided during Operation Midway Blitz at 7500 S. South Shore Drive.
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Chicago police investigate after authorities said an officer shot a man in the leg while responding to a report of a possible suspect in recent robberies in the area near East 111th Place and South State Street in Roseland on the Far South Side on Thursday.
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