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Police sawed through plastic pipes to pry apart seven unauthorized immigrants at a federal detention center near Chicago on Tuesday.

Curious City's search for the answer led us into the chilly depths of Chicago’s United Center to head ice technician Dan Ahearn - also known as “The God of Ice in the Midwest,” by a fellow Zamboni driver.

Invoking the Boston Marathon bombings, a national group has filed a lawsuit aimed at an ordinance that requires jail personnel to disregard federal immigration detainers.

Candidates Biggert and Foster are both trying to avoid a brewing controversy over a proposed immigrant detention center.

A city official has a “conversation” with Corrections Corporation of America about building a facility to hold immigrants awaiting deportation.

Want to see a movie on Chicago's South Side? If the Chatham 14 on 87th Street remains closed, you'll have to head west or north.

Lawmakers in other parts of the country, most recently the District of Columbia, have approved bills modeled after the policy. Some Republicans want the trend stopped.