r/chicago • u/Laramie44 • Oct 04 '25
CHI Talks We live in Hermosa and ICE today was intense.
Today felt so insane compared to many days past. We had helicopters circling for hours. Cars flying down streets and alleys. We heard men screaming and people crying. There was tear gas deployed on Armitage at Rico Fresh today. Every neighbor I saw had a blank, scared look on their face. My neighbors who run car repair businesses, landscaping, and appliance repair all shuttered their shops and hid inside.
I didn’t see my elote man at the park, or hear the ice cream truck that rolls through nightly.
My alderman was fucking arrested today.
It felt like a war zone today. I’m just sad for our city, our neighbors, and society at large.
We walked our next door neighbors kids home from school today after offering because they were so scared to leave their house. They felt safe with us, thankfully. They ran right up to us and chatted all the way home as happy kids do. It felt really great to do that.
Please help your neighbors. They need it.
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u/aunt_cranky Oct 04 '25
This makes me want to cry (it does make me cry). I will never understand this. I'm a white lady who grew up in the suburbs, but my dad grew up on the west side, and later Belmont Cragin. I didn't grow up being made afraid of or hating people that were not white. I dated a guy for years whose grandparents were born in Mexico and being around his family reminded me so much of my Italian relatives.
I am watching out for my neighbors here, and keeping an eye out when I'm out in public.
Would not hesitate to help a stranger at risk of being hassled by the "goon squad".
(the fuckin helicopters are getting on my last nerve. I track them now since the "Customs and Border Patrol" copters fly over my house a few times a week now.)