Overview

• U.S. District Judge April Perry issued a temporary injunction blocking the federal government from taking control of the Illinois National Guard or deploying troops in the state for roughly two weeks.
• About 500 Guard members had already been mobilized in the region — roughly 200 from Texas and 300 from Illinois — before the ruling.
• Media footage showed Guard personnel patrolling at ICE’s Broadview facility near Chicago as a government filing described the site as a target of actual and threatened violence.
• Illinois and the City of Chicago sued to stop the plan, with Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson opposing the deployment as an overreach of federal authority.
• The White House argues the forces are needed to protect federal personnel and property, while related legal fights, including proceedings over a Portland deployment, continue in federal courts.