A student-run newspaper at a top-tier private university has recently debuted an interactive map tracking the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the surrounding area, inviting readers to contribute information on federal law enforcement actions.

The University of Chicago’s publication, The Maroon, began its initiative to monitor ICE activities on October 21.

According to the article featuring the map, “The Maroon is documenting sightings of ICE in the neighborhoods of Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Woodlawn on an interactive platform, following the start of ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz last month.”

This photo shows the University of Chicago campus in Chicago, taken on October 18, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Each point on the map is associated with the location of an ICE sighting or operation. These interactive markers include details such as the date of the event and a brief description of the incident.

The news story solicits tips on ICE activity from readers.

“The Maroon is collecting evidence of immigration enforcement activity (e.g., a timestamped photo or video) to verify reports of ICE activity around campus,” the story says.

It then asks readers to contact the paper’s editors with information, either by email or the encrypted messaging application Signal.

“The Maroon protects source information, and your name and contact information will only be seen by the paper’s editors,” the article says.

In Chicago, ICE has faced numerous clashes with violent agitators in recent months, ans DHS recently announced an 8,000% increase in death threats targeting ICE officers. 

Cobb Gate at the University of Chicago in Chicago, United States, on October 18, 2022.  (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The University of Chicago itself, whose noted unofficial tagline is “where fun goes to die,” recently found itself at the center of immigration enforcement controversy when a professor was arrested for allegedly battering police officers at an anti-ICE rally outside the Broadview, Illinois illegal immigrant detention center.

Associate Professor Eman Abdelhadi was arrested on Oct. 3 and charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a government employee, Class 3 felonies, and two counts of resisting/obstructing peace, Class A misdemeanors.

Left-wing agitators have been clashing with immigration authorities in the suburban Chicago town for months.

The day before her arrest, she joined a left-wing podcast where she slammed ICE.

“These people are terrorizing our communities and they’re setting up shop,” she said, referring to federal immigration officials. “I mean, in Broadview, ICE has been setting up shop in our backyard. Just brazenly taking up community resources to terrorize this very same community. And so it felt really important to join protesters out there to say, not in our city, not in our name, not in our backyard.”

She also criticized moderate liberals.

A mugshot of Eman Adbelhadi from Oct. 3, 2025. (Cook County Sheriff’s Office) (Cook County Sheriff’s Office)

“There’s no center left,” she said. “You’re either resisting or you’re complicit.”

Adbelhadi’s employment status at the school remains a mystery, as school officials have ignored multiple requests for comment about whether she is still actively teaching courses.

The University of Chicago said The Maroon is an “independent student publication” and directed requests for comment to the paper’s editors. 

The two top editors of The Maroon declined to comment.