UPDATES: ICE and federal enforcement in Mount Prospect

ProspectorNow Staff • 231 Views

November 7, 2025

This fall, Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights, and Chicagoland as a whole has been inundated with hundreds of federal immigration agents and militarized border patrol agents.

Operation Midway Blitz officially began September 8th in the Chicagoland area. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims that the operation’s goal is to arrest and deport scores of undocumented immigrants, despite violent videos and images of ICE detaining protestors and U.S citizens. “No American citizens have been arrested or detained,” said Noem, at an October 31st press conference.

This is not true: dozens of U.S citizens have been detained by ICE throughout the continuing Operation Midway Blitz.

This page will be updated with credible reports of ICE, border patrol, and other federal immigration enforcement in Mount Prospect and neighboring towns.

Updates will be posted according to verified alerts from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. ICIRR operates a text alert system to inform community members on ICE sightings. According to ICIRR’s website, notifications are only sent out when reports have been verified by a rapid response team.

You can report ICE activity to the ICIRR by calling 855-435-7693.

To receive notifications when this page is updated with new verified sightings, you can sign up for email updates by clicking here.

We turned this story into a Live Update thread November 9th – prior to that date, this page was not updated, which is why there were no updates between October 19th and November 5th.

To view or return to our complete “Know Your Rights” page, click here.

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Updated

Nov 10, 2025, 9:20 pm

Noah Jahn, Online Editor-in-Chief

November, 5th – Shell Gas Station

On November 5th, multiple suspected ICE vehicles were spotted refueling at the local Shell gas station.

Sighting information:

Location: Dempster / Algonquin Shell Gas Station

Reported by multiple community members through photos.

November 5th, 2025.

Updated

Oct 19, 2025, 5:17 pm

Noah Jahn, Online Editor-in-Chief

October 19th, 2:00 – ICE manhunt occurs in Owen Park area

The quiet corner of George Street and Evergreen Avenue and the surrounding Owen Park neighborhood was filled with numerous armed and masked ICE agents on a manhunt, allegedly looking for a man would later be found in the backyard of 104 S Mount Prospect Road – he had escaped, in handcuffs, from ICE after being detained at 930 Mt Prospect Plaza, the local Walmart. A helicopter was over Mount Prospect for more than 75 minutes. Quickly, community members took action. Some neighbors stood on their porches yelling at agents to leave, while others followed agents in their cars, honking loudly to alert others. We were told be first hand witnesses that ICE repeatedly trespassed on residents private property during this manhunt.

To learn more, you can watch the above video story on the “No Kings” protests in Mount Prospect and Arlington Heights, and the ensuing immigration manhunt.

Sighting information:

Location: Intersection of George Street and Evergreen Avenue

Confirmed by ProspectorNow.com reporters on scene.

October 19th, 2025 – around 2:00

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About the Contributor

Noah Jahn, Online Editor-in-Chief

I’m Noah Jahn, a sophomore at Prospect and the Online Editor-in-Chief for Illinois’ best student newspaper, KnightMedia. I love running, which is why I run cross country and track and field for Prospect. I do tons of things outside of school like camping, skiing, traveling, and other stuff.