Andrew Carter

Andrew Carter is a senior reporter at the Chicago Tribune. He previously worked at the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. More recently, he spent 13 years at The News & Observer in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, where he received three National Headliner Awards and was twice named the state's sportswriter of the year.

Southside Together member Alajah Wills, center, holds a sign while participating in a chant with tenants and community members in front of the recently raided South Shore apartment building on Nov. 24, 2025. The news conference announced the formation of the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

Federal agents raided a Chicago apartment building two months ago. Now its residents have formed a union.

December 3, 2025 at 9:35 a.m.

Nearly two months after the militarized raid that roused them from their sleep and made international headlines, residents who remain at 7500 South Shore Drive are fighting back.

U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., listens to Panaderia Coral bakery owner Gloria Canchola as he tours the streets and shops of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, Nov. 21, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

US Sen. Ruben Gallego, a Chicago native, denounces immigration raids in return home

November 21, 2025 at 4:20 p.m.

U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona can't do much to shield the Little Village from Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the Chicago native wanted to bear witness to his hometown's resilience.

Baltazar Enriquez, president of the Little Village Community Council, blows a whistle as federal immigration officers depart, Oct. 23, 2025, after a raid at the Discount Mall on West 26th Street. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

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

November 10, 2025 at 3:06 p.m.

In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump's mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.

A WSIU relay transmitter near Olney in Richland County, Sept. 13, 2025. The station’s range is amplified by towers in Carbondale and Mount Vernon and Olney (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

In rural southern Illinois, an NPR affiliate tries to fight on amid federal cuts

October 5, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

In southern Illinois, a public radio station was already operating at the margins when Donald Trump called for NPR's defunding. Now it needs to fill a $1.4 million hole.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent chases a protester into a residential yard near the ICE holding facility in Broadview on Sept. 26, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

Broadview residents are scared as ICE facility becomes a battleground for Trump immigration blitz

October 3, 2025 at 5:19 p.m.

Broadview has become the epicenter of Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement, leaving some locals hiding in fear from ICE and others loathing the smell of tear gas in the morning.

Army veteran Tony Walker and his wife, Rosemary, put a jacket on daughter Kamari, 2, before day care on Sept. 4, 2025, at their home in Plainfield. (Dominic Di Palermo/ Chicago Tribune)

Records show the VA failed to treat a Plainfield father’s common infection. Now he’s paying the price.

September 8, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

At Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, lab tests a Plainfield veteran's blood test detected the presence a common bacterial infection. Doctors failed to treat it – and the mistake has...

Coach Izzy Martínez demonstrates technique with wrestlers on Aug. 13, 2025, at his Izzy Style training center in Addison. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Izzy Martínez built a wrestling empire in Chicago. Can he take the sport mainstream?

August 28, 2025 at 4:21 p.m.

One of the sport's most successful coaches wants to change the way you think about professional wrestling.

The Rev. David Ryan, then assistant executive director of Maryville Academy, spoke to the media about the alleged trouble at the facility on July 10, 2003. (James Branaman/Chicago Tribune)

After a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse decades ago at Maryville Academy, a Lake Zurich priest is placed on leave for the third time

August 18, 2025 at 12:19 p.m.

After the Chicago archdiocese places a Lake Zurich priest on leave for the third time, a former Maryville resident files a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators spill onto Dearborn Street to attend the "No Kings" rally at Daley Plaza on June 14, 2025. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

‘We’re all people’: Chicago ‘No Kings’ demonstration sees giant crowd march peacefully around Loop

June 14, 2025 at 7:04 p.m.

The sounds of one of Chicago’s largest protests in recent memory reverberated throughout downtown Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered in a united admonishment of President Trump.

Hundreds march down Michigan Avenue in Chicago on June 12, 2025, while protesting nationwide immigration raids by federal law enforcement and ICE. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune)

Tens of thousands expected to march in Chicago’s ‘No Kings’ rally in defiance of Donald Trump

June 14, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

"No Kings" organizers scheduled the protests in direct response to President Donald Trump birthday celebration and military parade.

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