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Attack back on Uhaul and Budget

Posted on 2025/10/24 - 2025/10/24 by unsalted

Originally published on https://chicagoantireport.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/06/attack-back-on-uhaul-and-budget/

Three UHaul and Budget trucks were vandalized this weekend in response to their role in the South Shore invasion this past week.

Federal agents violently attacked a residential building in the middle of the night using the full force of their military equipment including flashbang grenades and Blackhawk helicopters. Reports estimate about 300 pigs from multiple federal agencies took part. Residents described doors kicked in and apartments ransacked as families were dragged out into the night and kidnapped, stolen from their homes to be handcuffed and trapped in unmarked vans. One resident described the attack as a “siege” and multiple witnesses feared the traumatic impact this would have on the children living in the building and attending the nearby school. Photo documentation shows federal agents conducted the siege using Budget and Uhaul trucks, which is a direct violation of their terms of service, in addition to being morally reprehensible.

We call on other friends in the city to join us as we justly retaliate against Budget and UHaul for being complicit in fascist attacks against our neighbors. It doesn’t take much: it’s easy to spot the trucks as you take a walk or a bike ride around your neighborhood, especially near the end of the month when folks are moving. If you go when the sun’s up, it’ll be easier to identify what vulnerability on the truck you want to attack (glass, exhaust pipe, gas tank, tires, etc.), and easier to scout for any potential surveillance risks. Once you’ve found a few targets, come back after the sun’s gone down and let ‘er rip!

To Budget and UHaul: the damage done to your trucks is nowhere near what’s deserved for your role in this shameful and disgusting act. We will not stop until you sever your ties with these fascist pigs! If you attack our city, we will attack back!

Posted in Communiqués, General, ICETagged Chicago, direct action, repost, Sabotage, vandalism

Banner Drop at Chicago Marathon

Posted on 2025/10/14 - 2025/10/14 by unsalted
Marathon participants run down a street in downtown Chicago, past a hand-painted banner which reads "26mi - you are running the length of Gaza. 67000+ KILLED. FREE PALESTINE."
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“26 mi: You are running the length of Gaza. 67,000+ KILLED. FREE PALESTINE.”
This morning, over 50,000 people participated in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, a 26.2 mile race starting in the Loop, flanked and escorted by cops on all sides. Thousands of gratuitously patriotic fans lined downtown streets, holding signs, waving American flags (among other nations’ banners), and cheering loudly.
This pre-planned gridlock downtown fell days after the second anniversary of October 7th, 2023, marking two years of the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, with a conservative under-count of over 67,000 Palestinians murdered to date. The run was ironically, unintentionally resonant—26 miles is also approximately the length of Gaza’s coastline.
Bank of America (B of A) sponsors and organizes the event, which carries a $250-260 registration fee. B of A is also a sponsor and accomplice to “Israel”‘s illegitimate colonial project and an active genocide financier.

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Posted in Communiqués, Free Palestine, GeneralTagged Banner Drop, Chicago, Free Palestine

Faces of Area ICE Agents

Posted on 2025/09/16 - 2025/09/16 by unsalted

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from publicly available coverage in chicago and pics taken by otg chicago protestors

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Posted in GeneralTagged Chicago, ICE, infodump

New Zine: RESIST ICE FASCISTS IN CHICAGO

Posted on 2025/08/19 - 2025/11/12 by unsalted
Excerpt from front of "Resist ICE Fascists in Chicago" pamphlet. The title is above an illustration of two people sitting at a table facing each other. One is a white man wearing a hard hat and yellow reflective vest with a single cookie in front of him. Across from him is a black man wearing a t-shirt and with nothing in front of him. Between them both in the background is a bald man in a suit atop a huge pile of cookies, pointing to the black man as he says to the white man "Careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!"

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Posted in General, ZinesTagged Chicago, ICE, Zines

A Guide to ICE Infrastructure in Chicago

Posted on 2025/07/21 - 2025/08/18 by unsalted

Originally published on https://chicagoantireport.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/20/a-guide-to-ice-infrastructure-in-chicago/

From @generalstrikeillinois on Instagram

Map of Chicago with various ICE buildings labeled. Photo of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, at 71 West Van Buren Street. There are also details about how it is used in ICE kidnappings. Photo of the HSI Lombard Field Office at 747 East 22nd Street in Lombard, Illinois. There are also details about how Homeland Security Investigations assists in ICE kidnappings. Photo of the Broadview Processing Center at 1930 Beach Street in Broadview Illinois. There are also details about how people kidnapped by ICE are temporarily held here before being sent to larger facilities. Photo of the building housing the Immigration Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) office, at 2245 South Michigan Ave, Chicago. There are details about how it is used. Photo of the front of the ICE Chicago Field Office at 101 West Ida B. Wells Drive/536 South Clark Street in Chicago. There are details about how the building is used. Photo of the front of the building housing the Chicago Immigration Court, at 50 East Adams Street in Chicago. There are details about the building's garage and use.

Posted in GeneralTagged Chicago, ICE, infodump, repost

Spring 2025 Scouting at Proposed Location for the Quantum Campus

Posted on 2025/06/19 - 2025/06/19 by unsalted
A satellite view of the site with many locations marked and captions pointing out various things like fences, buildings, and empty fields.

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Comrades visited Steelworkers Park and walked through the surrounding land to scout the area where the Quantum campus is scheduled to be constructed. This report back is based on two scouts. Go and see for yourself.

Steelworkers Park is a public city park: folks are on walks with their dogs, fishing, climbing, and birdwatching. There’s free parking, DIVY bikes, and community work days. A cop car was present in the cul-de-sac of the entrance/parking/exit, like at many public parks. Rainbow Beach is further north, another public park with several parking lots. It would be a manageable distance to bike from.

There are traffic cameras at the 87th and LSD intersection and some above the parking area for the park. No other cameras were spotted throughout the land at the time of writing [mid April 2025].

The land specifically designated for the first phase of the construction of the Quantum base is directly south of the Steelworkers Park entrance. It butts up against the west side of the park and continues south towards US Army Corps of Engineers signs (looks like piles of rocks mostly tbh). This land is surrounded with a 5.5 ft fence. There are gates at several points which are locked, but there are a number of places where the fence has been damaged (notably on the north side there’s a giant rock that opens the space). It is also climbable. “No Trespassing” signs are nearly entirely absent. One was seen along with a US Army Corps of Engineers sign at the very westernmost fence near a gated entrance along LSD.

This lot varies in appearance; some areas have waist-height grass, some areas have denser trees, some of it is almost cleared. There are construction cones and little marking flags throughout, but it is not clear whether these are new or leftover from the past. There’s a bunch of trash, including two human-abandoned, bee-busy beehives. There are multiple “well testing” spots throughout. There are a number of gravel / dirt roads at various locations as well. There was a truck with a drill parked on one of these dirt roads. No workers were seen; unclear if the truck is there long term or what.

There’s a smaller fenced in area with a taller fence (~10ft) with barbed wire. The gate however is wide open. There’s a caterpillar sitting near this area, also unclear how long it’s been sitting.

It does not look like construction has started nor that there is elevated surveillance at this time. Keep watch, take risks. Fight against Quantum. Fight for the lake, the beavers, South Shore, for privacy and autonomy, for ur lovers and friends.

Continue reading “Spring 2025 Scouting at Proposed Location for the Quantum Campus” →

Posted in General, ReportbackTagged Chicago, Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, infodump, Quantum Computing, Scouting

ANTI QUANTUM DAY Reportback, Opponents of PsiQuantum Facility in Chicago Disrupt Architecture Center Event with PsiQuantum VP 

Posted on 2025/04/22 - 2025/04/22 by unsalted

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We offer to you on “World Quantum Day” this report-back of recent movement building and protest against the specter of Quantum in so-called Chicago.

On the spring equinox, March 20, 2025, opponents of a plan to build the 9 Billion dollar Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park(IQMP) on the shores of southern Lake Michigan or Mishigami, disrupted an event that the Chicago Architecture Center hosted to sell the project to the public.

A dozen people rallied outside of the entrance of the swank downtown offices of the Chicago Architecture Center Thursday, calling simultaneously for the whole project to be stopped entirely, but also to make sure that the people are not forgotten if developers were to go forward with terraforming the lakefront to make room for this massive tech campus, and that there are also plans to ensure that somehow it would benefit the people currently living in the neighborhoods and the local ecosystem, not corporate profit and militarization. Colorful banners and signs held by people had the words, “Invest in People, Not Quantum”, “Quantum = Displacement: The Lake is for the People, Not Your Supercomputer” and “Love Mishigami, Hate Killer Quantum” while others played music and chanted. 

Continue reading “ANTI QUANTUM DAY Reportback, Opponents of PsiQuantum Facility in Chicago Disrupt Architecture Center Event with PsiQuantum VP “ →

Posted in General, ReportbackTagged Chicago, Disruption, Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, Quantum Computing

LDC Gas Forum in Chicago Disrupted

Posted on 2024/11/13 by unsalted
Two people hold a banner reading "Enbridge out of the great lakes! Shut down line 5 now!" in front of a hotel

Evil Enbridge out of the Great Lakes! Shut Down Line 5 NOW! A noisy disruption swept through the cocktail reception of the LDC gas forum in Chicago. The 3 day forum consisted of talks from directors and players in the oil and gas industry, hype-ing false solutions like carbon capture technologies, and how to keep expanding the oil and gas industry further while we descend into a world of deeply uncertain futures as climate change reshapes and ravages ecosystems on a global level and biodiversity rapidly declines.

A group of people entered the hotel hosting the conference and crashed the attendee’s welcome reception of the 2024 LDC Mid-Continent Gas Conference. A banner with the words, “Enbridge Out of the Great Lakes, Shut Down Line 5 Now!” on one side and, “Evil Enbridge, Fuck Off!” on the other side was unfurled at the cocktail hour reception. People sang, and chanted with a bullhorn, played instruments, and left messages for Enbridge and other gas companies inside the hotel. After causing a ruckus inside, the group walked outside to the bar’s patio overlooking the Chicago River, and less than one mile from Lake Michigan, to “greet” more LDC conference attendees with noise, banners, and rowdy jeers. One person was arrested by the pigs for allegedly trespassing and released onsite.

Notably present, Enbridge, the pipeline company responsible for moving tar sands from Alberta, Canada to its conglomeration of pipelines surrounding the Great Lakes region, known as the “Lakehead pipeline system” hosted talks and presentations as a major contributor at the LDC gas forum. Enbridge directors even gave a girl-boss presentation named: “Empowering Women in Energy: Tomorrow is Together”, in an attempt to say their industry of death and destruction is at least inclusive to women and anyone else who wishes a oil & gas fueled speedy demise to human existence on this planet
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Posted in Communiqués, GeneralTagged Chicago, Disruption, eco-defense, Enbridge, LDC Gas Forum

Upcoming Fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare: November 1-3

Posted on 2024/10/10 - 2024/10/11 by unsalted
Flyer for a Chicago Anarchist Skillshare. A skeleton hand is holding a rose in the foreground, over a checkered background. It reads "let's take care of each other so we can be dangerous together". The date and location info: Nov 1st, Patchwork Farms, 2825 W Chicago Ave, 6-10pm. Nov 2nd & 3rd, Westside Justice Center, 601 S. California Ave, 12-9pm. An email at the bottom: chicago_anarchist_skillshare@riseup.net

❤️‍🔥Let’s take care of each other so we can be dangerous together ❤️‍🔥

🍂Join us for a fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare, the weekend before the election on November 1-3!🍂

After over a year full of actions, disruptions and more, we are focusing on skillshares and group-faciliated sessions on care, in AND out of the streets.

What does it look like to care for ourselves and our people when we are not in the streets? What is care in times where people are reckoning with immense repression and dehumanization that comes with trying to confront the empire and all its entities?

While we don’t claim to have all the answers, we invite folks to engage in these questions with us.

​​​​​​​Some skillshare workshops to look forward to are: care under stress, diaster relief and mutual aid work, long-term prisoner support, somatic exercises, operational and digital security culture, fighting toxic prisons, storytelling by the beehive collective, community and self defense, conflict resolution, storytelling around the bonfire and so much more! Continue reading “Upcoming Fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare: November 1-3” →

Posted in Events, GeneralTagged Chicago, Events, Skillshare

New Announcements-Only Signal thread in Chicago: Pesky Parakeets

Posted on 2024/08/21 - 2024/09/01 by unsalted
A flyer reading "follow pesky parakeets on signal messenger" with the username "parakeet.24", a QR code, and the description "for crowd-sourced announcements, on the ground updates, and information for the DNC and beyond." It features a nest of parakeets on a telephone pole.

For the DNC and beyond! Based on the Sunbird model used in Austin, Texas. We plan to post events, calls to action and support, and on the ground updates.

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Posted in GeneralTagged Announcements, Chicago, Events

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