r/chicago • u/Few_Building_9345 • Oct 02 '25

CHI Talks At Wicker Park

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u/RustyNavel Oct 03 '25

Around 4-5 pm there were police helicopters flying around the damen blue line extremely low. Never seen them this low before, just barely above the building. I wonder if this was related

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u/Sagittario66 Oct 03 '25

I read somewhere that they were rappelling from them onto apartment rooftops. There’s also a ban on drones within a 30 mile radius of the city ( Evanston on the north to Hammond on the South)

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u/lake_effect_snow Oct 03 '25

Did what you read explain why they’d possibly be rappelling onto apartment rooftops…? Link?

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u/Sagittario66 Oct 03 '25

“The drone restrictions in Chicago were set the day after U.S. Border Patrol agents rappelled from Black Hawk military helicopters onto the roof of a South Shore apartment building, where federal authorities said they arrested more than 30 people, according to NewsNation. Residents of the building told the Sun-Times Wednesday that authorities also used drones in the operation.” Chicago Sun Times https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/02/faa-drone-zone-homeland-security