Beginning at around 8:00 am CT, protesters shut down part of Congress Parkway at LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago. The location is just outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, according to WBBM. The demonstrators erected two ladders in the street to hang a banner that read "Dismantle ICE, Defund The Police!"

The group Organized Communities Against Deportations assisted in organizing the protest, WBBM reported. OCAD is calling for an end to all ICE deportation efforts and immigration raids, the latest round of which began at the beginning of the year. Late last week, OCAD estimated that at least 121 people have been "swept up" in ICE's latest deportation effort.

Chicago police arrived on the scene, cutting and dismantling chains and lock boxes used to secure protesters to ladders and to one another, OCAD reported. All protesters "engaging in the blockade were arrested," according to the group We Charge Genocide. The Chicago Tribune reported"about 12 arrests."