<p>Six Chicago-area residents filed lawsuits this week targeting federal immigration agents who allegedly harmed them during Operation Midway Blitz, the deportation campaign that rocked the city and surrounding suburbs last fall.</p><p>During a news conference Thursday in Federal Plaza, their lawyers said they brought the lawsuits because Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has failed to file any criminal charges directly related to Midway Blitz.</p><p>The cases span the more than two-month immigration enforcement operation, which led to two shootings — one of them fatal — and thousands of arrests. The plaintiffs include:<br></p><ul class="rte2-style-ul" id="rte-cb667f82-7641-11f1-a557-33950da0d472"><li>A father in Cicero who was <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/09/1-year-old-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agent-in-cicero" target="_blank" >pepper-sprayed by immigration agents</a> while driving with his 1-year-old.</li><li>Siblings who were chasing agents in their vehicle when agents tear-gassed them.</li><li>A man pulled from his car by agents as he filmed them.</li><li>A man and a legal observer gassed and pepper-sprayed after Marimar Martinez was shot by a federal agent in Back of the Yards.</li></ul><p>Their lawyers said it's "ridiculous" that not a single federal agent has been charged, insisting that responsibility falls to O'Neill Burke. She has <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/05/21/special-prosecutor-midway-blitz-ice-trump-oneill-burke-cook-county" target="_blank" >successfully argued against the appointment</a> of a special prosecutor to investigate, and potentially charge, agents.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item"> <div class="ExternalContent-wrapper" data-embed> <iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-wRGPuDbMF4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Videos allegedly show agents’ aggressive tactics during Midway Blitz"></iframe> </div> </div></div><p>"Unfortunately, our state's attorney will not prosecute criminally and hold these agents accountable," Gregory E.