{"id":305503,"date":"2025-10-15T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:59:10","slug":"block-club-chicago-launches-whatsapp-channel-focused-on-chicago-immigration-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305503\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Club Chicago Launches WhatsApp Channel Focused on Chicago Immigration News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Block Club\u2019s team knows how confusing and fast immigration news is hitting Chicago as <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/tag\/operation-midway-blitz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Operation Midway Blitz<\/a> continues. So, in the hopes of simplifying the news for our readers, we\u2019ve launched a WhatsApp channel to share Block Club\u2019s daily recaps of ICE news and other breaking immigration news directly to your phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On weekdays, newsletter intern Jake Cox, Newsletter Editor Hannah Boufford and other Block Club staff members will send daily updates and alerts to the channel as news breaks. You can also text us on WhatsApp at <strong>312-860-0020 <\/strong>with questions, tips and feedback.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>You can follow the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Block Club is working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citybureau.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">City Bureau<\/a>\u2018s translation lab to share immigration stories and WhatsApp alerts in Spanish with the aim of reaching Chicagoans who need the reporting most. Forty-six percent of Hispanic Americans report using WhatsApp on a daily basis, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2021\/04\/07\/social-media-use-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Pew Research Center<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlock Club\u2019s goal has always been to keep Chicagoans informed on what\u2019s happening in their neighborhood and on their block,\u201d Boufford said. \u201cOur WhatsApp channel is the latest way we\u2019re trying to make news accessible. We\u2019re taking lessons we learned from our coronavirus hotline, our daily newsletters and our social media presence to reach our readers where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project was supported by a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medill.northwestern.edu\/news\/2025\/medill-midwest-solutions-journalism-hub-announces-micro-awards-to-four-chicago-newsrooms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Lab<\/a>, a research and development program designed to bolster the sustainability of local news in the Chicago area and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese awards represent our commitment to nurturing solutions journalism at the grassroots level,\u201d said Deborah Douglas, director of the Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub and Medill senior lecturer. \u201cBy providing targeted resources to these innovative Chicago newsrooms, we\u2019re not just funding stories \u2014 we\u2019re investing in a fundamental shift in how journalism serves communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Know Your Rights<\/p>\n<p>Follow For Updates<\/p>\n<p>You can follow these organizations for updates about immigration enforcement activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the Block Club Chicago podcast:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Block Club\u2019s team knows how confusing and fast immigration news is hitting Chicago as Operation Midway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,121074],"class_list":{"0":"post-305503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-operation-midway-blitz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}