| Good afternoon, Chicago. Abel Orozco was getting home after buying tamales for his family, like he did most weekends for the past
30 years. They would have breakfast and head to church. Instead, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained the Mexican immigrant outside his home in suburban Lyons without a federal warrant. Now, nearly six months later,
he is still detained. Immigration and civil rights attorneys argue that his arrest was not only unfair but illegal. Thanks to the video his son recorded of the arrest, Orozco has become the face of a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Attorneys say the two government agencies violated the constitutional rights of Orozco and at
least 25 other people, including one U.S. citizen, during the first week of increased immigration enforcement in the Chicago area after President Donald Trump took office. Here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/latest-headlines and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History news Lobbyist and former ComEd executive John Hooker enters the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on the first day of the
"ComEd Four" bribery conspiracy trial on March 14, 2023. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) Former Commonwealth Edison lobbyist John Hooker was sentenced today to a year and a half in prison for his role in an elaborate scheme to funnel $1.3 million to associates of then-House Speaker Michael Madigan in exchange for the powerful Democrat’s help with the utility’s legislative agenda in Springfield. More top news stories: business In this file photo from 2018, a Spectro Alloys company worker sorts and recycles aluminum scraps into solid ingots. With its new facility, EGA Spectro Alloys will make aluminum billets and ingots used in everything from Harley-Davidson motorcycles to Polaris ATVs. (The Minnesota Star Tribune) With its new $71 million expansion, EGA Spectro Alloys in this southern suburb of the Twin Cities becomes one of only about 40 plants in the U.S. that can make recycled aluminum billets. Think 25-foot-long poles of solid aluminum. More top business stories: sports Chicago Bulls guard Yuki Kawamura attends practice at the Advocate Center on Monday, July 7, 2025, in preparation for the Summer League in Las Vegas. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Yuki Kawamura came to Las Vegas with a simple goal: get a contract. More top sports stories: eat. watch. do. Mahari restaurant in Chicago's Hyde Park, Jan. 23, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) Mahari brings not just the vibrant cuisines of the African diaspora to Chicago, but chefs tracing their cultures and blazing their own paths, writes Tribune critic Louisa Kung Liu Chu. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: nation & world Children hold hands while participating in activities during the East Providence Boys and Girls Club Summer Camp at Emma G. Whiteknact Elementary School on Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Providence R.I. (AP Photo/Sophie Park) More than 20 states sued President Donald Trump’s administration today over billions of dollars in frozen education funding for after-school care, summer programs and more. More top stories from around the world: | 
