Senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino has returned to the Chicago area, about a month after leaving to lead immigration crackdowns in other cities.

Customs and Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino has returned to Chicago, and immigration enforcement operations were spotted taking place once again around the city on Tuesday.Agents spent most of their morning in Little Village,

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General is conducting an audit of the Chicago Housing Authority to scrutinize its procedures around verifying residents’ immigration status and criminal backgrounds, according to documents obtained by the Sun-Times.

A federal appeals court has blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago-area immigration crackdown.

Chicago — Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded, according to an associate minister, by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten and dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.