Mayor Brandon Johnson calls President Trump threat to send National Guard troops to Chicago illegal, “uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound,” while Gov. JB Pritzker says it would be

Considering Kamala Harris beat the president in Cook County, Illinois, by about a 75% margin, there were a lot of social media skeptics.

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday criticized President Donald Trump's suggestion that Chicago will be the next target of his efforts to crack down on crime by sending in the National Guard​, saying troops on the streets would not help the city fight crime.

President Donald Trump threatened to send more troops to other cities that he claimed were being overrun with crime as he continues the deployments in Washington, D.C.

Trump said on Friday that Chicago will "probably" be the next city to which the administration will deploy federal troops, officers and agents.

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding from dozens of "sanctuary" cities and counties — covering several of the largest cities in the U.S.