* ICYMI: Relief could come soon for ICE detainees facing ‘cruel’ conditions in Broadview, judge says. Block Club Chicago…

- U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman wrapped up a hearing Tuesday by ordering everyone back in the courtroom 4:15 p.m. Wednesday so he could issue a restraining order providing some immediate “relief” to those still held at Broadview.
- “We don’t want people to be treated the way I have heard them being treated,” Gettleman said. “Sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder, filthy toilets overflowing, surrounded by human waste, it’s just unacceptable.”
- Gettleman is overseeing a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of former detainees who claimed the dire conditions inside — from a lack of water and medication, little food, overflowing toilets and extreme overcrowding — are part of a concerted effort by federal agents to pressure people to sign voluntary deportation papers.

* Related stories…

• CNI: Judge calls alleged conditions at Broadview ICE facility ‘unnecessarily cruel’ after day of testimony
• WGN: Federal court hearing to focus on allegations of excessive use-of-force by immigration agents during Chicago-area operations
• NYT: ‘Unnecessarily Cruel’: Judge Expresses Alarm About ICE Detention Conditions

* Gov. Pritzker will speak on the Illinois Grocery Initiative at 10 am in Venice, attend the Alton Sunnybrook Affordable Housing grand opening at noon, and highlight infrastructure investments at 3 pm in Carbondale. Click here to watch.

*** Isabel’s Top Picks ***

* ABC Chicago | Dolton food pantry sees surge in visitors, could run out of groceries Wednesday: Shelves are already empty. If it continues at this pace, the food pantry says, they may not have anything by Wednesday. […] “My Link card was canceled, so don’t have any food and we didn’t prepare for it correctly, but it’s kind of scary,” said Chicago resident Kimberly Krenz. The food pantry’s founder, Dr. Nicole Scott, says she is worried that she will not be able to help everyone.

* Center Square | Illinois tax amnesty program closes Nov. 17, brings in $82.5 million: The Illinois Department of Revenue is confident it will meet, if not exceed, its goal of bringing in $240 million in delinquent payments over the next two weeks during the 2025 tax amnesty program. IDOR Director David Harris said the program legislators approved for the current fiscal year continues until Nov. 17. Tax liability that’s eligible for the program is that which was due to Illinois from periods ending June 30, 2018, to July 1, 2024.

*** Statewide ***

* Statescoop | New Illinois pilot program offers free phone calls at prisons: Starting Monday, each prisoner received 775 free domestic phone call minutes per month, roughly $6.20 in calling time credited to phone accounts, as part of the department’s broader push to expand affordable communication. The pilot, called Voices of Connection, costs roughly $150,000 per month from the IDOC’s general operating budget. Using tablets from ICSolutions, a company that provides telecommunication and technology services to correctional facilities, inmates can make calls directly through a dialer app when connected to Wi-Fi. The tablets are not designed to be used for messaging or accessing entertainment content.

* KHQA | Illinois becomes last of tri-states to implement new emergency reporting system: Lee Buxton, the Fire Service Outreach Coordinator for the Illinois Office of the State Fire Marshal said this was a needed switch because reports in the old system are all consistently at least 30 days old. The new data collection system will have near real-time updates—helping fire departments analyze the risks in their community, such as tracking trends of places where emergencies and fires often happen, to better serve those areas and even take proactive steps to make those areas safer.

* Center Square | Illinois biz leader: Diversity computer snafu so bad it ‘has to be intentional’: An Illinois computer problem that has led to the diversity decertifications of numerous businesses owned by minorities and women in the past 15 months is financially disastrous and unacceptable, according to the leader of the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce. “The fact of the matter is: I don’t think you can make that mistake,” Larry Ivory, the president of the group, told The Center Square. “This has to be intentional.”

*** Statehouse News ***

* WAND | Illinois Senate passes bill banning rent junk fees, House ends session without voting on plan: The plan passed out of the Senate on a 39-16 vote with one senator voting present. However, the House left Springfield without voting on the plan early Friday morning. House Democrats could try to pass House Bill 3564 when they return to the Capitol in January.

* Capitol News Illinois | Illinois bill ‘decouples’ state, federal taxes, raising revenue and angering businesses: Many states like Illinois tie sizable portions of the tax code to the federal government’s policies. That means HR1 would also reduce the amount of revenue the state receives unless Illinois takes the action Pritzker’s budget office recommended in its report last month that state lawmakers pass a bill to “decouple” parts of the state’s corporate tax code from the federal tax code to address this year’s deficit and allow the state to receive taxes it otherwise would not have received because of HR1.

* Capitol News Illinois | Illinois treasurer faces no GOP challenger as 2026 primary ballots take shape: No Republican filed to run for state treasurer by the close of the weeklong filing period for the March 17 primary election, marking, according to Frerichs’ campaign, the first time in at least 90 years a major party has failed to field a candidate for a statewide office. It reflects the enfeebled position of the Illinois GOP, which has not won a statewide election in more than a decade and has been relegated to superminority status in the state legislature and on the Illinois Supreme Court. The party also holds just three of 17 congressional seats.

*** Chicago ***

* Crain’s | Planning commissioner defends Johnson’s record $1B TIF sweep: The annual sweep of tax-increment financing districts redirects all funding not set aside for specific projects back to the city and other Cook County taxing districts. Johnson easily set a record last year with a $570 million surplus and is proposing nearly doubling it this year. The move has frustrated some on the Council who felt blindsided by the size of the outlay and feared it put pet projects in jeopardy.

* CBS Chicago | Protests expected as Border Patrol Cmdr. Bovino returns to federal court: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is overseeing the case, set a 7 p.m. deadline Tuesday for the U.S. Justice Department to list any evidence it wants to keep under seal, and to provide a two-word reason for each. Plaintiffs want the public to see Bovino’s deposition and body camera video, arguing they show how federal agents handled immigration enforcement in Chicago neighborhoods.

* Crain’s | City sets aside $50 million for Greyhound station: Chicago is setting aside $50 million for a proposed Greyhound station, but details are sparse and the local alderman is frustrated he wasn’t brought up to speed. Ald. Bill Conway, 34th, disclosed the potential spending during a budget hearing with the Department of Planning and Development, but no further details were provided on whether the funding would purchase and rehab the existing Harrison Street terminal, build a new station, or what the total costs are expected to be.

* Block Club | Gale Street Inn Being Revived By New Owners After Abrupt Closure — And The Ribs Will Be Back: The 62-year-old Jefferson Park restaurant is reopening under new ownership after abruptly closing in June. Jefferson Park resident Paulo Villabona bought The Gale Street Inn, 4914 N. Milwaukee Ave., on Saturday. He plans on reopening in early December. Villabona said he wants the restaurant to be “a community center that’s open to everyone where you can come in and listen to music, break bread and eat good food.”

* Tribune | CPS Board votes to absorb ChiArts, close small South Shore charter: Under the passed proposal, ChiArts will be converted into a district-run magnet school, after its independent board announced last month that it would not seek a renewal application due to financial issues. The board also included an amendment pledging to preserve the Humboldt Park school’s arts conservatory model “to the greatest extent practicable.” Currently, the ChiArts students spend three hours per day training on visual or performing arts — a program that would cost the district an extra $600,000 to maintain.

*** Cook County and Suburbs ***

* Tribune | Armed ICE agents sped down Northbrook street, grabbed man as schoolkids watched: He also spoke with two people who said they knew the detainee and who arrived around 8:30 a.m. to pick up the Acura. Pace was unable to confirm the identity of the man taken by the masked agents, though a deputy told him the Acura was registered to a Palatine address. “As a resident, I’m of course extremely unhappy to have armed, unidentified, masked men speeding around the neighborhood and doing aggressive boxing-in maneuvers, especially at precisely the time when children are going to school,” Pace wrote in a text message.

* WGN | Ordinance to limit immigration enforcement in Aurora fails to pass: The city of Aurora took steps Tuesday evening to curb where federal agents can carry out immigration enforcement, although the ordinance itself did not pass. “Without question, everyone is frustrated at the municipal level, trying to protect their communities against a federal rampage,” Aurora Mayor John Laesch said.[…] Although the ordinance did not pass at Tuesday night’s meeting, it will head back to the Rules, Administration and Procedures Committee and will be presented again at the next city council meeting.

* Daily Herald | Arlington Heights weighs ICE ban on municipal sites: The proposed prohibition on the use of village-owned sites would mirror measures enacted by local governments in recent days and weeks, including Wheeling on Monday night, and Chicago, Evanston, Cook County and Lake County before that. Village officials said they’re aware of at least three operations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and related agencies that have taken place within village limits — one of which involved Drug Enforcement Administration agents making an arrest then transferring the individual to ICE custody in a village parking lot.

* Daily Herald | ‘How are you protecting us?’: Palatine residents share concerns about ICE with council: Several called for solutions, including resident Tom Soule, an attorney, supported banning federal agents from village-owned property and sharing information with immigration officials as well. Resident Andrew Namowicz suggested an independent investigation of the Oct. 27 actions of a Palatine police officer who responded to a 911 call for a disturbance, only to find three ICE agents trying to detain a man while a crowd heckled them. Police said the officer intervened to protect the public and save the detainee from serious injury.

* Naperville Sun | Food pantries in Naperville area seeing big surge in need with SNAP shutdown: “Many of the people calling in are moms with children who are worried about how to feed their families,” said Jackie Alvarez, client services coordinator with Loaves & Fishes Community Services. One mother of four called Loaves & Fishes on Saturday morning in tears, worried about how she would feed her family without SNAP, Alvarez said. The woman rode her bike to the Loaves & Fishes’ pantry in Naperville so she could register as a new client and get the food and diapers she needed.

* Daily Southtown | Blue Island advocate, south suburban pantries help SNAP recipients find food: Despite all the compounding anxieties in the community, Gonzalez said residents have responded by coming together in a massive community resource network that includes more than 10 businesses. The network will start bringing food, hygiene products and essential household items to Blue Island and Chicago Heights residents this Saturday. Residents can request items to be dropped off at their residence or sign up to volunteer either through an online form or texting two different numbers, both listed on community flyers.

* Daily Southtown | Five candidates file for Will County sheriff; primaries likely in four county board districts: Five candidates filed to run for Will County sheriff in 2026, in a race to replace retiring longtime Sheriff Mike Kelley, while all but one incumbent serving on the Will County Board filed for reelection before Monday’s deadline. The primary election is March 17 and will determine who will be on the November ballot.

* Crain’s | Highland Park gives initial blessing for townhomes on long-empty Solo Cup site: The council voted unanimously Oct. 30 to approve preliminary plans from Chicago developer Habitat to redevelop the 28 acres where Solo Cup closed its factory in 2008. Although final approval won’t come until engineering and other details are submitted to the council, it’s a significant step toward filling a site that has remained a blank spot for years in the high-demand housing market in Highland Park.

*** Downstate ***

* WCIA | ‘Federal agents have been active inside and outside the city’s limits’: Urbana Mayor addresses federal immigration enforcement: “We are going to do our part to protect our community and again we are earning and continuing to build the trust from the folks that call Urbana home,” Williams said. WCIA 3 reached out to other cities to see if they have had confirmed ICE activity. Danville, Arcola, Decatur, Rantoul and Springfield all say they have not.

* WCIA | Danville approves partnership between DACC, police; 515K tech purchase: The first forms a partnership between the Danville Area Community College and the police department. As part of the agreement, the department will participate in college events and help students with their career paths. Students, on the other hand, will get the chance to shadow officers in the field and train at the department’s facilities.

* WCIA | Village of Rantoul offering new critical alert system: The new mass notification system is a direct line to getting alerts about power outages, water service interruptions and other disruptions. Those who register will also receive real-time updates on repair progress and estimated restoration times.

*** National ***

* NPR | Air traffic controllers warn of ‘tipping point’ as U.S. government shutdown drags on: The Federal Aviation Administration was forced to delay flights across the U.S. because of staffing shortages at dozens of air traffic control facilities, making for one of the most difficult days to fly since the government shutdown began five weeks ago. “What you’re seeing is a lot of people who are truly having to call in sick to go earn money elsewhere,” said one air traffic controller who works at a facility in the Midwest that handles high-altitude traffic. “I think you’re also seeing people who are just calling in sick because they’re fed up and they’re like, ‘well, I’m going to spend the holiday weekend with my kids for once.’”

* NYT | Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs: The legality of the bulk of the new tariffs is now in jeopardy, as the Supreme Court on Wednesday begins hearing a case that challenges Mr. Trump’s use of an emergency powers law to impose the levies. If the court rules against the president, it will nullify a major tool in Mr. Trump’s trade agenda. He has used the law under question, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to impose tariffs on an estimated 29 percent of all U.S. imports, the Times analysis found. So far this year, these emergency tariffs have hit more than $300 billion in imported goods.

* Politico | Judge rules Trump administration can’t tie transportation funding to immigration: The Trump administration cannot withhold billions of dollars in transportation funding to states that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled Tuesday. Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell wrote in his ruling that the U.S. Department of Transportation and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy “blatantly overstepped” their authority in attempting to link funding used to maintain roads, bridges and highways to immigration demands.