Border City Stories

Border City Stories: VC Chicago’s Professional Development event is November 13, 2025, at 3619 South State Street, Douglas, Chicago, Illinois 60609, United States; doors open at 6:30 PM CST with food and refreshments, screening at 7 PM CST; listing time: 7:30 PM. With Pulitzer Prize-winning City Bureau and Emmy award-winning Evident Media, see “Operation: Return to Sender,” by Evident Media, CalMatters and Bellingcat, then discuss video documentation with Evident Media co-founder Kevin Clancy, local reporters and experts. The film uncovered a blueprint for nationwide raids, detentions and deportations; context includes CBP’s claimed warrantless vehicle/vessel search authority within 100 miles of U.S. boundaries and Chicago’s “Operation Midway Blitz” crackdown since September, with increasing force and threatened charges against protesters, civilians and journalists; City Bureau advances local journalism, civic media and participatory democracy through skills, resources and dialogue: ci

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