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Welcome to It Could Happens here, a podcast where my longtime home city of Chicago is preparing for a federal occupation.

I am your host, Mia Wong, and with me to talk about

what the fuck is going on, about a thing that at the end of last year, as bad as we thought

this was going to be, was basically unimaginable. With me, talk about this is Raven, who's a journalist

from the independent outlet unraveled in Chicago, which does a lot of

really, really excellent work on the ground, reporting on social movements in the city,

reporting on the government, does a bunch of incredible works and some really good stuff on

ShotSpotter. Yeah, Raven, welcome to the show. Yeah, thank you for such a beautiful intro.

Yeah, thanks for doing this. I don't know. Like, I'm a really big fan of Unraveled.

I think most of the newspapers in Chicago are just like just weird right-wing rags

and getting actual good news out of the city is kind of difficult because it's like.

Yeah, we have a good number now of digital indie outlets in the city, but once you get

outside of Cook County, especially, you know, the Chicago metro area is huge and like,

yeah, it's all like pink slime garbage, like everything's been bought out. They don't have

like real reporters anymore. So it can be a huge challenge to cover things like just in the collar counties,

which is. Yeah. Coincidentally, also where a lot of this ice activity might be happening in the

next 45 days, 30 days, however long it lasts. Yeah. So let's, I guess, from the jump, before we get into sort of the kind of long arc

of ICE and the feds in Chicago for the last year, let's talk about Trump's thing to send

to the National Guard and stuff the people in the city are really concerned about.

Yeah, well, you know, there's kind of two things happening simultaneously, right? Trump is

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