Gregory Royal Pratt

Raised in Little Village, Gregory Royal Pratt is an investigative reporter. He has been a finalist for the Livingston and earned recognition from the National Headliner Awards, the Lisagors, and Scripps Howard. He is the author of “The City is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis.”

U.S. Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García speaks during a news conference at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights headquarters in the Loop on Sept. 28, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

US Rep. Jesús ‘Chuy’ García not running for reelection, source says, as last candidates file for 2026 campaigns

November 4, 2025 at 11:36 a.m.

The congressman's chief of staff, Patty Garcia, also filed to run for the 4th Congressional District seat and the congressman is expected to withdraw his petitions, according to a source...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, including U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino at the bow, head east along the Chicago River toward the lake near the Michigan Avenue bridge on Sept. 25, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership

November 2, 2025 at 7:57 p.m.

Instead of carefully targeted arrests long practiced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration has deployed roving groups of masked Border Patrol agents, who work within U.S....

Border Patrol agents detain painter Krzysztof Klim while verifying his identification on Oct. 31, 2025, next to Halloween decorations outside a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood. Klim, originally from Poland and now a U.S. citizen, was briefly detained and then released. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

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

November 4, 2025 at 6:10 p.m.

Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, Border Patrol agents tore through Chicago and the suburbs.

Ruben Torres Maldonado is reunited with his children, Nathan, 4, and Ofelia, 16, and wife Sandibell Hidalgo at the family's home in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood on Oct. 30, 2025. An immigration judge granted bond to Torres after he was arrested by federal immigration agents at a Home Depot in Niles while his daughter Ofelia was on a temporary break from treatment for Stage 4 cancer. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)

Photos: ICE detainee released and reunited with family and 16-year-old daughter fighting cancer

October 31, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.

Ruben Torres Maldonado returned home to his wife, sick daughter and 4-year old son after nearly two weeks in ICE custody.

Immigration judge releases Chicago dad whose 16-year-old daughter is fighting cancer

October 31, 2025 at 12:39 p.m.

An immigration judge granted Ruben Torres Maldonado bond on Thursday, releasing him from ICE detention. His 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment.

Federal agents bring a detainee into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview on Oct. 18, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)

Inhumane conditions and medical neglect alleged at Broadview ICE processing center

October 31, 2025 at 5:28 p.m.

A sweeping class-action lawsuit filed on Friday against immigration officials alleges dirty and unsafe conditions at the federal holding facility in Broadview where they say arrestees are being warehoused for...

Brian Kolp carries tear gas near his home that was used by border patrol officers at the scene where residents say a landscaper worker, a resident of the area, and a woman on a bike were detained on the 3700 block of North Kildare Avenue Saturday Oct. 25, 2025 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets as Chicagoans bellow, ‘Get out of our city!’

October 27, 2025 at 5:21 p.m.

Federal immigration agents again deployed tear gas on Chicago streets Saturday morning, despite mounting scrutiny from a federal judge over their use of the chemical weapons.

Ofelia Torres, 16, left, and her mother, Sandibell Hidalgo, 40, at their home on Oct. 20, 2025, in Chicago. Torres' father and Hidalgo's husband, Ruben Torres Maldonado, was taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers over the weekend. Ofelia Torres was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma cancer in December 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Judge rules ICE illegally detained Chicago father whose daughter is battling cancer

October 25, 2025 at 8:19 a.m.

Ruben Torres Maldonado is 40-year-old Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment.

Gas is deployed as a vehicle of federal agents backs down the 3300 block of North Lakewood Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood on Oct. 24, 2025. (Alyson Lewis)

Federal immigration agents tear-gas Lakeview, raid Lincoln Park as feds focus on city’s affluent North Side

October 24, 2025 at 6:21 p.m.

Lincoln Park Ald. Timmy Knudsen, 43rd, said masked immigration agents hit “every corner of the ward” he represents, one of the city's wealthiest communities.

A crowd confronts federal agents after a raid at the Discount Mall on West 26th Street in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood on Oct 23, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Midway Blitz leader Greg Bovino ordered into court after feds defend using tear gas on residents in Little Village

October 24, 2025 at 8:21 p.m.

In the statement, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Border Patrol agents were near 27th Street and Whipple Ave when they were surrounded by a large crowd of “75 to 100”...

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