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Federal agents gas Chicago kids on their way to Halloween parade

Jason Weisberger
Oct 28, 2025
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Halloween came early for one Chicago neighborhood when federal agents decided the only thing scarier than ghosts was government. ICE and Border Patrol units reportedly stormed Old Irving Park just as parents and children were heading to a Halloween parade, filling the air with tear gas in defiance of a federal judge’s …

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