Little Village community members want city officials to speed up the placement of signs enforcing “ICE-free zones” after federal agents were spotted near two Chicago Public Schools on the Lower West Side on Tuesday.

In one incident captured on video, federal agents drove around the parking lot of Lazaro Cardenas Elementary School, 2345 S. Millard Ave., according to Little Village Community Council President Baltazar Enriquez, who spoke at a news conference Wednesday.

“They are using a CPS parking lot!” a woman says in the video, taken around 5 p.m.

CPS employees and community members then asked the agents to leave, Enriquez said. After that, the agents went to a nearby alley and detained four people, he said.

Federal agents were also spotted in alley adjacent to the field at Farragut C

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