Overview
- Police say two late-night shootings near Millennium Park left 14-year-old Armani Floyd dead and eight other teenagers wounded after the tree-lighting event.
- Investigators have not announced arrests or suspects and are working to determine whether the two shootings are connected.
- Alderman Brian Hopkins reported roughly 300 juveniles in a downtown "teen takeover" and said multiple officers were attacked, with at least one hospitalized.
- President Donald Trump urged a Guard deployment in a Truth Social post and criticized Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson, claiming residents were chanting to bring him in.
- Some Texas Guard units previously sent to Illinois have returned home, and about 300 federalized Illinois Guard troops remain restricted under a lower-court ruling now before the Supreme Court.