AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Community groups popularized whistle alerts in Chicago and spread them nationwide. Whistles signal agent presence, alerting people to ...

A few days before Halloween, while other businesses in San Francisco were putting out bowls of candy for patrons, Jonathan Ojinaga presented a different offering. Instead of M&M’s and Kit Kats, he ...

Crafting for Evan Cordes-Stone and his daughter, Evie, looks different these days. The two have been spending afternoons in their Chicago apartment assembling whistles for neighbors to use if they see ...

CHICAGO – As the shrill sound of whistles echoed through a parking garage in Chicago’s North Side on Oct 21, two people flung their car doors open, ducked inside and shrank down into their seats.

CHICAGO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - As the shrill sound of whistles echoed through a parking garage in Chicago’s North Side on Tuesday, two people flung their car doors open, ducked inside and shrank down ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US In a tense moment on Tuesday, two individuals in ...

How Plastic Whistles Are Becoming an Anti-ICE Resistance Tool in Chicago By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO (Reuters) -As the shrill sound of whistles echoed through a parking garage in Chicago’s North Side ...

As President Donald Trump continues to push a militarized occupation of Chicago in the name of the administration’s anti-immigration agenda, residents across the Windy City have seized upon a simple, ...

CHICAGO—President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” has prompted an unorthodox form of high-pitched protest: whistles. Organizers have been sending out the ...

Owner Vanessa Aguirre-Ávalos was busy watching over a small group of young children at Luna y Cielo Play Café when she heard what sounded like a helicopter circling over the neighborhood. Concerned, ...

The plastic whistles have become a way to loudly resist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and warn those who may be in danger. Across the city, the Trump administration’s “Midway Blitz” ...

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