- ICIRR (for immigration-related arrests and ICE sightings): 855-435-7693
- NLG Hotline (if you are arrested at a protest or for political activity): 872-465-4244
- Cook County Public Defender hotline (if you are arrested in Chicago or any other city or town in Cook County): 844-817-4448
- First Defense Legal Aid Hotline (to report police, federal law enforcement, or national guard misconduct): 800-529-7374
Fund Medicaid, Not Detention Centers!
Louis Pastuer Monument, near 1831 W Congress Pkwy, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 8 p.m.
This Thursday Feb 19 at 8:00 pm at the Louis Pasteur monument healthcare unions and allies will be rallying to fund Medicaid, not ICE... More
Yalla Parkour Film Screening
Location provided upon RSVP.
Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.
Join Climbers for Palestine Chicago for a film screening of @yallaparkourfilm on Thursday Feb 19th, 7 pm in Chicago. We’ll be selling some merch, raffling off some prizes and will have tea and desserts. Please donate generously as 100% of proceeds raised will support the families of the Gazan athlet... More
Citizenship: Notes On an American Myth by Daisy Hernández
Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Women & Children First Bookstore hosts Daisy Hernández to celebrate the release of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. For this event, Daisy will be joined in conversation by Sarah Schulman. This event will be held at the bookstore and is free to attend, but will also act as a fundraiser for Mid... More
Beating Bovino - How Attorneys Secured a Victory in Bogus Murder for Hire Trial
Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m.
In October, the U.S. Attorney charged Juan Espinoza Martinez with a bogus charge of offering a bounty to kill Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino. The government circulated false information that Mr. Espinoza Martinez was a Latin King gang member who was offering up to $10,000.00 for Bovino's mur... More
The Spies Among Us
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 9 p.m.
Haymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World🎬Join us Thursday, February 19th for a screening of Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman’s 2025 documentary: The Spies Among Us. The film will be followed by a discussion led by... More
60 Years of Housing Activism: MLK Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement
University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, Cloister Club, 1212 E. 59th St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
It’s been exactly 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family moved to the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, with a sharp focus on a discriminatory and unaffordable housing crisis. A stellar panel of journalists, scholars, activists and stakeholders reflect on this legacy, and wh... More
Artist Talk with Yohance Lacour
Co-Prosperity, 3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 5 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.
Peabody Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. This year, we’re launching the Podcast Lab, a new program for advanced media artists ages 18-25. Led by Peabody Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Yohance Lacour (You Didn’t See Nothin), the Podcast Lab is a 6-month program in which fo... More
Lessons From Minnesota
Virtual
Feb. 19, 2026, 1 p.m.
We’re so inspired by the organized strength in Minnesota. From waging the first general strike in decades to building hyperlocal ICE defense networks, we can learn so much from the diversity of tactics that organizers in Minnesota are using to protect each other. It’s on us to take the Lessons from ... More
Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement
Ida Noyes Cloister Club, 1212 E. 59th St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 12:30 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
It’s been exactly 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family moved to the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, with a sharp focus on a discriminatory and unaffordable housing crisis. A stellar panel of journalists, scholars, activists and stakeholders reflect on this legacy and whe... More
Day of Remembrance Vigil
Broadview ICE Abduction Center, 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, IL
Feb. 19, 2026, noon
Each year on February 19th the Japanese American community reflects upon the consequences of Executive Order 9066 across our generations. Join JACL Chicago and Nikkei Uprising in solidarity with our neighbors detained and murdered. Never Again is Now! RSVP at http://bit/ly/ChicagoDORVigil2026... More
Marronage, Migration, and Black Resistance: A Conversation on Black Histories and Policy
University of Chicago, The Keller Center Sky Suite, 1307 E. 60th St, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
This panel brings together Black Studies scholars whose work examines marronage*, slavery, and Black resistance across geographic, historical, and contemporary contexts. Drawing on archives from the 17th through 19th centuries in the United States and Caribbean, the panelists will explore histories ... More
We Got Us: Our Health, Our Rights, Our Future
Edith Abbott Hall, 969 E. 60th St, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Join the University of Chicago's African American Alumni Committee of the Crown Family School Alumni Board as they explore the interconnected roles of health, justice, policy, politics, and community empowerment in shaping the health and well-being of historically marginalized and under-resourced co... More
Thea Riofrancos on Extraction
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Join Thea Riofrancos and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Riofrancos’s new book, Extraction. Co-sponsored by Haymarket House and Pilsen Community Books.... More
Abolition 101 - Foundations
Virtual
Feb. 18, 2026, 5 p.m.
Rad Webinar - a webinar series from Law For Black Lives. Guest speaker: Benji Hart. Abolition 101: Foundations is a dive into abolition during a time of heightened law enforcement and deployment of troops and ICE to U.S. cities. This session grounds us in the truth that police is police is police... More
Renee Good's Murder & Other Acts of Terror
CCSRPC Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 5 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
A discussion on Robin D.G. Kelley’s Essay on Renee Good’s Murder. Join us for an intimate pre-reading discussion in advance of our Annual Public Lecture featuring Robin D. G. Kelley. This session will center on Kelley’s powerful essay reflecting on the Minneapolis uprisings following the murder o... More
CPS High School Wide Walkout
The flag pole on your campus
Feb. 18, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
DURING 8TH PERIOD. GET YOUR ATTENDANCE FOR 8TH PERIOD THEN WALKOUT AT 2:05 THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE AND MEET AT THE FLAG POLE. (We made sure your absence will be excused!) ‼️WEAR SOMETHING THAT REPRESENTS YOUR CULTURE. MAKE POSTERS AND BRING WATER. If you have 9th period you must return throu... More
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W. 18th St, Chicago
Feb. 17, 2026, 7 p.m. - Feb. 17, 2026, 8 p.m.
Pilsen Community Books welcomes Alice Yang to the store for an event in celebration of her new novel, "A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing," a dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effec... More
Pretrial Fairness Community Court Watching!
Glen Ellyn Public Library, 400 Duane St, Glen Ellyn, IL
Feb. 17, 2026, 7 p.m.
Join the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice for another community court watching. This March, we'll be watching pretrial hearings in DuPage County to monitor the end of money bond. Participants will receive training on how to record observations from these pretrial hearings. Register at: bi... More
General Strikes, National Liberation & Our Strategy for Black Liberation
6353 S. Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago
Feb. 17, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Join us on Tuesday February 17 for our Black History Month program to discuss General Strikes, National Liberation and our Strategy for Black Liberation! The national liberation movements of oppressed nations across the globe are revolutionary struggles that strike at the heart of U.S. Imperialis... More
Pathways for Early Release
Garfield Park neigbhorhood, Walls Turned Sideways, 2717 W. Madison St, Chicago
Feb. 17, 2026, 6 p.m. - Feb. 17, 2026, 8 p.m.
Join the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project on Tuesday, February 17th for a workshop with Stanley Howard and Janet Jackson. This is our second workshop with them and we’re so excited! A legal crash course of the IL court system by two former jailhouse lawyers. Stanley and Janet will run us throug... More