DOJ indicts a congressional candidate in Chicago

Kat Abughazaleh, a Democratic candidate for Illinois's 9th congressional district, carries yard signs into her campaign office in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago on May 6, 2025. | Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

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Welcome to The Logoff: A federal grand jury in Illinois has indicted six people, including a Democratic congressional candidate, for participating in a September protest outside an ICE facility near Chicago.

What happened? The indictment charges six people, including two local elected officials and Kat Abughazaleh, a Democrat running for Congress on Chicago’s North Shore, with conspiring to interfere with and........

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