{"id":89010,"date":"2025-11-03T07:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=89010"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:29:37","slug":"were-not-a-violent-city-chicago-locals-take-on-ice-block-by-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/were-not-a-violent-city-chicago-locals-take-on-ice-block-by-block\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re not a violent city\u2019: Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO: The immigration agents\u2019 tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder. \u201cWe don\u2019t want you here,\u201d yelled Rae Lindenberg. The 32-year-old, who works in marketing, ran out of her apartment when she heard the shrill sound of whistles. \u201cGet out of our neighborhood!\u201d The squad of agents had appeared in Lakeview last month, an upscale neighborhood dotted with dog daycares, medical spas and vegan restaurants, hopping over a gate to chase down a construction worker who was handcuffed and shoved into a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>When Courtney Conway, a 42-year-old lifelong Chicago resident, heard about the chase through Facebook groups and text message chains, she hopped on her bike to join the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not a violent city. This is not a war zone, and I think these guys are terrorizing us and trying to incite us,\u201d said Conway. \u201cWe want them out. We want them to stop kidnapping our neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO: The immigration agents\u2019 tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder. \u201cWe don\u2019t want you here,\u201d yelled Rae Lindenberg. The 32-year-old, who works in marketing, ran out of her apartment when she heard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89031,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89010\/revisions\/89031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}