As Illinois and Chicago filed suit to block the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, a judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order Monday afternoon, and it was revealed that troops a...

Illinois and Chicago escalated the legal battle against President Donald Trump’s troop deployments this morning, filing a suit to block the administration from sending the National Guard into Chicago.

Illinois’ Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, accused Trump of turning troops into “political props” and urged Americans to “speak up and help stop this madness.”