Illinois City Hall Building Security Denied Bathroom Access to DHS Secretary Noem
Noem noted that the Village of Broadview “receives at least $1 million in federal funding every year.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary reported that she and members of her team were “blocked” from entering the Village of Broadview (Illinois) Municipal Building on Friday after stopping for what she described as “a quick bathroom break.”
In a post on X, Noem noted that the Village of Broadview “receives at least $1 million in federal funding every year.”
She shared a video clip showing Noem and several others approaching the building entrance. As a man inside holds the door shut, a member of Noem’s group asks if they can use the restroom, to which he replies, “No, you cannot.”
“We can’t?” Noem asks before the man reiterates his refusal and adds curtly: “Please don’t block the door.”
As she walks away, Noem says, “Okay, alright, thank you. Interesting.” Pointing toward the door, she adds, “That’s what Governor [JB] Pritzker says is cooperation in keeping people safe.”
Asked by a reporter what had happened, Noem replied, they had come to conduct some operations, “to pick up some guys with criminal convictions on them and the city police wouldn’t even let us use the restroom.
“So, as much as these local leaders and governors talk about cooperating and having the backs of law enforcement, this is what we have to put up with every single day.
“And all we’re doing is getting criminals and terrorists and cartels and gang members off the streets to make families safer. It’s ridiculous.”
My team and I were just blocked from accessing the Village of Broadview Municipal Building in Illinois. We were stopping for a quick bathroom break. This is a public building. The Village of Broadview receives at least $1 million in federal funding every year.
This is how JB… https://t.co/vHxjSVh8LT
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) October 3, 2025
Ahead of Noem’s visit to Illinois, Pritzker’s office released the following statement:
Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.
Secretary Noem should no longer be able to step foot inside the State of Illinois without any form of public accountability. Last time when the secretary was here, she snuck in during the early morning to film social media videos and fled before sunrise. It’s been nearly 45 days since Secretary Noem has held an official press conference, so it’s time she faces the public and takes questions from the press to be held accountable for the Trump Administration’s gross misconduct.
Illinois is not a photo opportunity or war zone, it’s a sovereign state where our people deserve rights, respect, and answers.
Broadview, Illinois, located about 12 miles from downtown Chicago, is home to the area’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility. Earlier on Friday, Fox News reported that “more than a dozen people were arrested by federal agents during demonstrations.” According to the report, agents deployed “pepper balls, tear gas, and rubber bullets to disperse crowds blocking federal operations.”
One might reasonably ask: how else were ICE agents expected to bring the demonstrations to an end?
Pritzker and other blue-state governors seem willfully blind to the way their resistance to federal crime-fighting efforts is being received outside their political bubble. What they portray as standing up to President Donald Trump increasingly looks to ordinary voters like standing in the way of safer streets, stronger communities, and a functioning justice system.
The message they are sending — intended or not — is that ideology and partisan posturing matter more than the safety of their constituents. That kind of arrogance carries a political cost. At a time when polls consistently show crime, public safety, and the deportation of illegal immigrants ranking among the top concerns for voters, dismissing federal help doesn’t come across as bold leadership — it comes across as reckless indifference. And voters who feel abandoned in their own neighborhoods will remember exactly who chose confrontation over protection.
I hope they keep up this behavior through the midterm elections.
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That’s why you want men in government. As Camille Paglia pointed out, men can just zip into an alley.
And if caught, placed on the sex offender registry for exposting themselves in public.
Fur shure!
Wow, sexist much! Or tongue in cheek. I think the latter.
It’s Hardin, the racist garbage who blames Jews for killing Charlie Kirk. He exists to make us grateful it was dog crap on our shoes and not him.
Terminate all Illinois federal funding
Make da bears great again… 🙂
ICE should now truck around a portapotty with Pritzker’s image on it. Then again make it two side by side since he’s a wide load and two are needed to display his entire image.
“the Village of Broadview “receives at least $1 million in federal funding every year.”
“Illinois is not a photo opportunity or war zone, it’s a sovereign state”
Your terms are acceptable.
Time to get sovereign, Fat Boy.
Democrats rebelling against lawful federal government, where have I heard that before . . .?
You noted in your post, “…how else were ICE agents expected to bring the demonstrations to an end?”
Unless and until they start using belt-feds after issuing an order to disperse the illegal and unlawful demonstrations I will not believe that the current administration is actually serious about enforcing the law.
The current left-wing has made it very clear that they do not believe that there are any innocent people to the right of Stalin. Let us take them at their word.
Given today’s attack on DHS/ICE near Chicago and the CPD refusing to help contain the mobs, it’s time for Illinois to be recognized as in rebellion.
One of the attackers was armed … but considering race, sex and welfare status… probably protected from prosecution. Maybe auditioning to joint Trayvon, Michael and George as Heros of the Shstrugle.
But, but, it’s okay when they do an insurrection. An actual armed insurrection, not just rednecks with flagpoles invited into a public building.
Refusing to help is not rebellion. It’s their constitutional right. On the other hand the federal government is entitled to examine how much cooperation it feels like extending to the CPD. If CPD is not doing the job it represents itself to the feds as doing, then it’s probably not an organization the feds would want to help more than they have to.
It’s their constitutional right to deny a woman access to the public restrooms in a public building?
You got a weird idea of the Constitution, Democrat.
Apparently Prikster doesn’t understand that sovereign states still must abide by federal law.
Illinois is abiding by federal law. Federal law can’t compel sovereign states to do as Congress wishes them to do. It can prohibit them from doing things Congress wishes them not to. And it can try to persuade them to do as Congress wishes them to do. But it can’t compel them.
Is there a Starbucks nearby?
That’s a good idea. Their policy is not only that they have to let you pee even if you don’t buy anything, but they’ll let you shoot up in the john to boot.
Whoever blocked the door can expect an IRS audit.
I wish. Only Democrats use the IRS (among other agencies) for retaliation. Before Trump, Republicans acted as though they deserved it.
You’re right that the IRS would just refuse the order, and expose it to the public, as it did with Nixon. But there are many investigative agencies that can examine this guy, and they should all be sicced on him, just because he was being so petty.
We are not like you, Democrat. The IRS, weaponized for your kind even as far back as the 70s, is not something sane and decent people would use as a political weapon.
Being a Democrat, this is probably incomprehensible to you.
As soon as the government reopens Congress can get to work on the budget bills. Slip into each bill that sanctuary cities / states will be cutoff from Federal funds for everything except Medicaid dollars. No infrastructure, no highway monies, no grants, so SBA, no student loans, zip, nada, nothing.
Congress can’t do that. It would compel the states to cooperate, and that would violate the constitution. Such conditional cuts can only be for small enough amounts that the states can afford to choose to continue defying Congress and do without the money. See S Dakota v Dole.
Pritzker is a fat, entitled piece of crap.
Too many “news” articles fail to address some simple questions. This episode begs the question, “why?”
Twice, actually. First: Why did the city hall refuse entry? There may have been a legitimate reason (e.g., the water was shut off temporarily, or the building was otherwise legitimately closed to visitors temporarily for any number of reasons), but we may never know, because the information wasn’t sought or worse, provided. The story is incomplete without it.
Second: why did they choose to stop *there*?
Hell, third: where’d you end up going? I mean, it was news, right?
This kind of clown show isn’t winning hearts and minds. It’s one thing when J.B. Back Ribs leads with a demonstrably tone-deaf write-off of black lives taken by gang violence in his state’s capital city; it’s another entirely when the democratically-elected administration’s law enforcement officers make a story about not being able to take a f***ing piss in a local burg’s building for undisclosed-but-we’re-gonna-make-it-sound-as-if-we-know-it’s-because-of-petty-AF reasons.
Or, excuse me, I’m sorry, I overspoke: should have just left it at “a story about not being able to take a f***ing piss”.
That’s the hill ya wanna die on today.
K.
GMAFB already.
#wheredidkristipiss?