Chicago Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for local reporting: Read the stories and see the photos

The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting on Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.

Chicago Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for local reporting

The following stories, photographs and editorials were submitted to judges for consideration.

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz

• Dec. 28: By Andrew Carter, Caroline Kubzansky, Gregory Royal Pratt and Laura Rodríguez Presa

They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.

• Oct. 19: Chicago Tribune staff

‘Dehumanizing’: Inside the Broadview ICE facility where immigrants sleep on cold concrete

• Aug. 3: By Laura Rodríguez Presa and Joe Mahr

Rioters? Agitators? Immigration agents’ claims against US citizens mostly fall apart in court.

• Dec. 30: Madeline Buckley, Christy Gutowski and Joe Mahr

Photos: Operation Midway Blitz

• Dec. 22: Chicago Tribune staff

Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’

• Nov. 8: By Andrew Carter

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

• Nov. 3: By Laura Rodriguez Presa and Jonathan Bullington

Elgin man who is a US citizen was briefly detained in latest Chicago-area immigration enforcement blitz

• Sept. 16: Angie Leventis Lourgos, Jeremy Gorner and Stacey Wescott

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

• Oct. 13: By Gregory Royal Pratt

Mother, children detained by ICE at Millennium Park Sunday held at O’Hare with other families: ‘We never imagined’

• Sept. 29: By Laura Rodríguez Presa

Federal agents shoot Chicago woman they accuse of ‘boxing in’ vehicle in Brighton Park

• Oct. 4: Jake Sheridan, Gregory Royal Pratt, Caroline Kubzansky, Rebecca Johnson and Peter Tsai

Only 2.6% on list of 614 ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees had criminal histories, DOJ records show
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• Nov. 14: Jason Meisner, Madeline Buckley, Gregory Royal Pratt, Rebecca Johnson and Laura Rodríguez Presa

On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs

• Oct. 31: Jonathan Bullington, Gregory Royal Pratt, Alice Yin, Tess Kenny, Richie Requena, Brian Cassella, Laura Turbay and Rebecca Johnson

‘You’re Dr. Phil.’ TV personality says he joined immigration raids in Chicago for ‘transparency.’

• Jan. 27: Dan Petrella, Nell Salzman and Jake Sheridan

Editorial: ICE must leave US citizens alone

• Sept. 18: Editorial Board