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People gather outside the Village of Franklin Park police station, Sept. 15, 2025, after marching from the site of a memorial for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA memorial for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez during a vigil in Franklin Park on Sept. 15, 2025. Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez was shot and killed Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nFlowers are displayed near a memorial, Sept. 15, 2025, for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA woman lights a candle during a vigil, Sept. 15, 2025, for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed last Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nPeople gather outside the Village of Franklin Park police station, Sept. 15, 2025, after marching from the site of a memorial for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nPeople march in the street on West Grand Avenue in Franklin Park, Sept. 15, 2025, during a vigil for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nPeople gather along West Grand Avenue in Franklin Park, Sept. 15, 2025, during a vigil for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed last Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nPeople install a memorial, Sept. 15, 2025, for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed last Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nFBI employees watch as a vehicle is towed from the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a man after the agency says he tried to flee a traffic stop in the car and struck an officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nMembers of the FBI and other law enforcement officers investigate at the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nMembers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement officers investigate the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nMembers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement officers investigate the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nIllinois House Speaker Chris Welch, left, and Rep. Lilian Jim\u00e9nez, center, speak with members of the press at the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nActivists attend a press conference at the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nMembers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement officers investigate the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nMembers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement officers investigate the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nMembers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement officers work the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nMembers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation work the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a person after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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People gather outside the Village of Franklin Park police station, Sept. 15, 2025, after marching from the site of a memorial for Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez, who was shot and killed Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
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Trump in July approved a $170 billion spend for the Department of Homeland Security, almost doubling its budget in an effort to dramatically ramp up border security and domestic deportations. The package included almost $30 billion earmarked for ICE officers.<\/p>\n
ICE has received more than 150,000 applications and extended over 18,000 tentative job offers, Trump\u2019s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement Tuesday, without specifying a timeline.<\/p>\n
The number of police in Chicago has for years lagged below what the department is authorized to hire.<\/p>\n
There are currently 11,554 sworn CPD members, according to a database maintained by Inspector General Deborah Witzburg. Johnson and the City Council budgeted over $1.4 billion for 13,267 positions.<\/p>\n
But after plummeting during the COVID-19 pandemic, police staffing levels have remained mostly steady since Johnson\u2019s first month in office. CPD employed over 13,350 sworn members at a recent peak in January 2019, but has seen its headcount drop by only 166 employees since Johnson took office.<\/p>\n
Recruiting \u2014 and keeping \u2014 police remains a key focus and critical challenge for Johnson and Snelling\u2019s Police Department. CPD has used job fairs, social media and offered information at City Colleges in a bid to attract native Chicagoans in particular \u2014 a third of whom identify as Latino.<\/p>\n
The city received around 500 applications per week to join CPD\u2019s ranks from 2023 to 2024, according to a Tribune analysis published in April.<\/p>\n
The recruiting push appears to include other local advertisements as well. Kat Abughazaleh, a 9th Congressional District candidate, shared a photo on social media platform X last week showing a video board calling on passerby to \u201cdefend the homeland\u201d and \u201cjoin ICE today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTrump has declared war on Chicago and now his secret police are running racist ads in Edgewater,\u201d Abughazaleh wrote.<\/p>\n
The recruiting push comes amid Trump\u2019s weeks-long threats to flood Chicago with more immigration enforcement agents and possibly even National Guard troops. Protests across the city and in suburbs have pushed back on the recent influx of agents, which appeared to dampen Mexican Independence Day celebrations last weekend, and immigration arrests were reported across the region early this week.<\/p>\n
Homeland Security officials have said the operation will target \u201ccriminal illegal aliens\u201d who have taken advantage of the city and state\u2019s sanctuary policies. A Tribune analysis found, however, that many immigrants who were previously arrested under Trump didn\u2019t have criminal records. There have been few details released on how long this latest operation may last, or if Trump will deploy the National Guard to assist, as he\u2019s previously suggested<\/a>.<\/p>\n
In the Franklin Park incident, DHS said the man had hit an officer with his car, then dragged the officer before the shooting. But state leaders, including Gov. JB Pritzker, have argued ICE has not been forthcoming in sharing details about the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n
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