Ahead of a potential National Guard deployment to Chicago and sweeping raids from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the greater area, the Evanston City Council is moving forward with plans to pass a largely symbolic resolution to ban law enforcement agents from wearing masks while on the job.

The city’s Human Rights Committee unanimously passed a resolution at its Sept. 2 meeting to encourage the U.S. Congress and Illinois General Assembly to prohibit law enforcement officials from concealing their identities. The committee, made up of five City Councilmembers, also passed an ordinance to increase the penalty for those impersonating law officers, doubling the city’s $750 civil penalty and adding a proposed six-month prison sentence — on top of the state’s $25,000 fine and pr

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