{"id":277773,"date":"2025-10-04T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277773\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:44:13","slug":"trump-sending-300-national-guard-troops-to-chicago-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277773\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Sending 300 National Guard Troops To Chicago, Governor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 President Donald Trump is sending 300 National Guard troops to Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning, the\u00a0Trump Administration\u2019s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,\u201d Pritzker said in a statement Saturday. \u201cIn the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. They will pull hardworking Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance \u2014 not a serious effort the protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deployment comes after weeks of back and forth between the Trump administration, state and local officials. <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/09\/15\/trump-revives-threat-of-sending-troops-to-chicago-after-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Trump has threatened multiple times<\/a> to send troops to Chicago, calling the city crime-ridden and local leaders incompetent, despite data showing crime decreasing across the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois. State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people\u2019s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights,\u201d Pritzker said in a statement. \u201cI will not call up our National Guard to further Trump\u2019s acts of aggression against our people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the Block Club Chicago podcast:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 President Donald Trump is sending 300 National Guard troops to Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,121074],"class_list":{"0":"post-277773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-operation-midway-blitz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115317379215038484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}