Mick Dumke
Investigative Editor at Block Club Chicago
Editor and reporter for Block Club Chicago. I'm often tracking politics, rooting for the Cubs & the Cats, and listening to Curtis or the Clash.
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2 days ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Mick Dumke
CHICAGO — The immigration crackdown was widely publicized and at least partly televised, but federal officials still haven’t revealed how many people they rounded up during sweeps in Chicago in January. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have never released a list or even a summary of who its agents arrested here in the raids ordered by President Donald Trump after his inauguration. ICE has also concealed what those people were charged with and where federal agents took them.
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2 months ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Mick Dumke
CHICAGO — In his inauguration speech on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump vowed to deport “millions and millions of criminal aliens,” revisiting one of his signature reelection themes. Within days, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made a show of moving into Chicago neighborhoods, accompanied by television personality “Dr. Phil” McGraw for publicity. But ICE officials have gone quiet about what they actually did during those roundups in January.
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2 months ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Mick Dumke
CHICAGO — When I read the email again the other day, I realized it was classic Tuyet. “Look at all the trouble you’ve gotten me into,” she’d written. And that was really funny, because she never needed any help getting into the kind of trouble that came from calling out the powerful. It was also typical of her to downplay her own work and credit others — and to crack jokes about all of it. She’d sent me the email in February 2011, less than two weeks before the city elections.
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2 months ago |
asianamericans.einnews.com | Mick Dumke
CHICAGO — When I read the email again the other day, I realized it was classic Tuyet. “Look at all the trouble you’ve gotten me into,” she’d written. And that was really funny, because she never needed any help getting into the kind of trouble that came from calling out the powerful. It was also typical of her to downplay her own work and credit others — and to crack jokes about all of it. She’d sent me the email in February 2011, less than two weeks before the city elections.
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Nov 15, 2024 |
blockclubchicago.org | Mack Liederman |Mick Dumke
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget would end plans to add much-needed mental health support staff at the Chicago Police Department. The mayor’s proposal is raising alarms with police-reform advocates who see links between a healthier rank-and-file and safer communities. Under the mayor’s draft 2025 budget, 22 positions for clinical therapists within the police department would be eliminated — handcuffing an effort to have one counselor for each of the city’s police districts.
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ICE failed to respond to my FOIA request for basic information about arrests in Chicago. They're required to under the law. So we're suing.
@blockclubchi, our nonprofit neighborhood newsroom, is suing ICE over immigration records. We believe in the public's right to know what its government is doing. https://t.co/iNLEuzlBnx
Due to a housing shortage, Chicago officials say they have to "prioritize" which homeless people are connected to apartments while others wait--and they do so via an often-secretive process that leaves many people desperate and confused: "It's defeating."
I spent the last few months trying to understand the system meant to connect people experiencing homelessness to housing options, how many feel about it and how “Accelerated Moving Events,” like the one at Gompers Park, fit into the process. My latest: https://t.co/DZ59xrCUzx
RT @BenBradleyTV: It's not just you. ICE has refused all our requests to provide basic information about the number of people arrested, the…
