A ICE OUT! Statewide Shutdown sign on a coffee shop window in Minneapolis.

Woman on Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis holding up a sign that reads: "Ya'll din't look for missing children this hard" on January 19, 2026.

An SUV driving down Hennepin Avenue with 2 federal agents standing in the doors in Uptown Minneapolis on January 19, 2026.

Last night on Lake Street in Minneapolis where i'm told a couple of ICE agents or ICE contractors were eating at an Indian grill when they were recognized and then called for backup feeling uncomfortable.

BORTAC, the Border Patrol high risk tactical unit showed up - walking around holding up canisters of tear gas in the air as whistles blew and horns honked.

Graffiti on Hennepion Avenue in Minneapolis that reads "NO ICE GESTAPO". Seen on January 16, 2026.

Protest sign on a pole at Lake Street and Girard Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis on January 13, 2026. The signs read:

THIS IS FASCISM!
WE MUST FIGHT BACK

Detained pastor says ICE let him go because he’s White
Rev. Kenny Callaghan was detained the morning Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent.

GET A WHISTLE, GET OUTSIDE, USE YOUR RIGHTS.

Person walks past large wheat pasted posters of Renee Good that read:

"Renee Nicole Good"
"American Mom"
"Murdered by ICE"

Posters on electrical boxes in Uptown Minneapolis that reads "Protect our Somali Neighbors".

Holiday lights up at Nico's Tacos on Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis.

Cars, cars parked, bikers, walkers on the new Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis.

Traffic flows through the LynLake district of Minneapolis at South Dupont and Bryant Avenue, a neighborhood long known as a crossroads between Uptown and Whittier. Once a streetcar junction for the Twin City Rapid Transit Company, the area declined after the 1950s but later rebounded through waves of redevelopment and independent business growth. Today, LynLake blends historic brick storefronts with modern apartments and restaurants, reflecting Minneapolis’s broader push toward urban density and transit-oriented design along the former streetcar corridor.

After almost 2 years of construction, Hennepin Avenue was re-opened today. The closure ripped up the entire street rebuilding it back with bike and bus lanes.

Bikers, walkers on the Midtown Greenway as a bus leaves the Uptown Transit Station above.

Uptown Minneapolis, October 2025

New bike lanes on Hennepin Avenue. The road had been closed for complete reconstruction.

Amid the long-running Hennepin Avenue reconstruction, residents added a dose of humor and gratitude by dressing Halloween skeletons in reflective vests and hard hats, mounting them on a front-yard tree with “Thank You Construction Crews!” signs. This improvised display along the busy corridor captures both the extended disruption of the project and the community’s appreciation for the workers transforming one of Minneapolis’s key thoroughfares.

The Spectacle Shoppe on Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis with new grass and bike lane installed. The multi year project to rebuild Hennepin Avenue comes to an end next month.

A mural by Shane Anderson in Minneapolis with a Martin Luther King quote that reads "Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that".

The Lowry on Hennepin Avenue during a multi-year road construction project.

Every weekend night around 8pm, Minneapolis police park in the new bike lanes on Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis.

Sexy Nerds dance party in Uptown Minneapolis at The Green Room.