Overview

• U.S. Northern Command says roughly 200 Texas and about 300 Illinois National Guard members are mobilized for a 60‑day mission, staging out of an Army Reserve base in Elwood.
• Officials describe duties that include setting security perimeters, crowd control and de‑escalation, with authority to detain temporarily but not to make arrests.
• Illinois and the City of Chicago have sued to halt the deployment, with a federal hearing set for Thursday after a judge declined an immediate restraining order earlier in the week.
• Courts have already constrained similar moves elsewhere, including a federal block on deploying Guard units to Portland as a California appeal proceeds.
• Protests continued in downtown Chicago and near ICE’s Broadview facility with curfew enforcement by local police, Milwaukee saw solidarity marches, President Trump urged jailing Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor J.B. Pritzker, and AP reported some Texas troops have begun guarding federal property.