Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during President Ronald Reagan’s term. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Photos: Protests at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility
Federal agents stand inside the fence on Sept. 28, 2025, at the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)People pray on Sept. 28, 2025, near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
A protester recovers after being sprayed in the face by a federal agent along the fence on Sept. 28, 2025, at the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)Federal agents escort a detainee into the facility on Sept. 28, 2025, at the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)Protesters rally on Sept. 28, 2025, near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
A detainee, right, stands next to a young girl who appears to be detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 27, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)Protesters clash with ICE agents outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Protesters clash with federal agents outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
An ICE agent chases a protester into residential yard near the ICE holding facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)Federal agents fire baton rounds at demonstrators near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)A protester holds a sign as federal agents move toward demonstrators near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
Federal agents move toward protesters at 25th Street near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)A protester runs away from federal agents firing chemical gas at him along Harvard Street near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility on Sept. 26, 2025, in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)Levi Rolles is seen with several bruises from baton shots outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
Baton rounds fired toward protesters outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview are seen Sept. 26, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)Protesters gather outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Sept. 26, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)A protester covers his face as chemical gas surrounds him along Harvard Street near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility on Sept. 26, 2025, in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
A federal agent points his rifle of pepper balls at a protester near Harvard Street and 25th Avenue a block from the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility on Sept. 26, 2025, in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)A federal agent points his rifle full of pepper balls at protesters along Harvard Street near the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement facility on Sept. 26, 2025, in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)Demonstrators run from paintball gun pellets containing irritants, fired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, in response to the posting of a banner on a newly-erected security fence blocking off the street in front of the building at 1930 Beach St. Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in Broadview. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
A demonstrator pours water on his eyes after being hit by paintball gun pellets containing irritants, fired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, in response to the posting of a banner on a newly-erected security fence blocking off the street in front of the building at 1930 Beach St. Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in Broadview. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)Activist Leanna Quarticcio stands outside fencing set up around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Sept. 23, 2025, in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)New fencing is set up along the 1900 block of Beach Street surrounding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 23, 2025. The fencing will prevent protesters from blocking the driveway where ICE vehicles enter and exit the building. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Broadview police officers stand in front of roadblocks preventing vehicles from driving down the 1900 block of Beach Street in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 23, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)Federal law enforcement officers detain a protester outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Federal law enforcement officers throw gas canister at protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
A pepper ball hits a protester outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building Friday Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Protesters gather outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Federal law enforcement officers launch gas canisters at protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
Federal law enforcement officers detain a protester outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Protesters who have been detained by federal law enforcement officers sit in a parking lot outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)A protester who was shot with pepper balls while blocking a federal law enforcement vehicle leans against a fence outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
A man in a President Donald Trump “Keep America Great” hat argues with protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Federal law enforcement officers spray mace at protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Protesters kneel after being hit with paintball gun pepper balls and mace while clashing with federal law enforcement officers outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
A federal law enforcement officer pushes a protester before detaining her outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Federal law enforcement officers detain a protester outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Federal law enforcement officers detain a protester outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
A protester is shot with paintball gun pepper balls while blocking a federal law enforcement vehicle outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)Protesters lock arms as they try to block ICE vehicles from entering or exiting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)Federal agents stand on the roof of the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and watch protesters below on Sept. 19, 2025, in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Protesters scuffle with federal officers as an ICE vehicle enters the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
At around 8:30 a.m., agents threw multiple gas canisters and fired pepper-spray balls to disperse the crowd as a group of people were trying to block a van from leaving the building. Agents grabbed one man who appeared to be charging up the driveway, pinned him to the ground and hustled him behind the gate with his hands behind his back.
Milagros Pelayo, 22, of Elgin, and her sister Yessenia Pelayo, 16, protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview hoping to see their father, Rosario Pelayo, who was detained, Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)A protester is knocked over as federal officers clear ICE protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as vans leave the Broadview facility on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Federal officers confront protesters on Sept. 19, 2025, by the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)Federal officers take a rooftop position as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)Federal officers clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Federal officers clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)ICE protesters block the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
