Overview
- Two shootings in the Chicago Loop on Friday night left a teenager dead and at least seven others injured, according to local officials.
- Chicago Alderman Brian Hopkins said the violence unfolded during a larger disturbance involving roughly 300 juveniles who attacked officers, with one officer hospitalized.
- President Trump posted on Truth Social urging a National Guard deployment and claimed there was massive crime and rioting, quoting chants of “BRING IN TRUMP!!!”.
- A lower court previously barred the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard troops that Trump had federalized, and the Supreme Court is now weighing that question.
- Two hundred Texas National Guard members who had been sent earlier have returned to Texas as Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson continue to resist federal intervention.