School officials said ICE agents tried to enter Hamline Elementary Friday morning, spurring panic. The Secret Service later claimed responsibility.

Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago public school officials falsely claimed last week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrived at an elementary school.

Chicago Public Schools Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova, right, walks out of Hamline Elementary School on Jan. 24, 2025 to talk to the media regarding what CPS said was prevention of ...

(CNN) — Fearing federal agents asking to search a Chicago elementary school Friday morning were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, school officials denied them entry. But it turned out they ...

CPS officials say they didn’t let the agents into Hamline Elementary School, believing they were immigration agents from ICE. • This report was published in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times.

After Chicago Public Schools initially claimed ICE agents visited a Southwest Side elementary school Friday morning, it was later confirmed that this was not the case.

Around 11:15 a.m., the agents attempted to enter Hamline Elementary School, Chicago Public Schools’ Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova said.

School officials responded to the agents with the understanding that they were from ICE, “amid rumors and reports that the agency was in the community,” a district spokesperson told CNN.