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Details about the operation are scant, but President Donald Trump has amped up the rhetoric about crime in the nation’s third-largest city, saying an immigration crackdown and National Guard deployment are planned despite the objections of local leaders and a federal court ruling that a similar deployment in Los Angeles was illegal.
“Relief cuts” in the grain bin and the moving around of grain helped to rescue the man.
Nate Bargatze performs February 20, 2026.
It’s no coincidence that extra policing will come during Mexican Independence Day celebrations, says Pritzker.
To kick off the promotion, McDonald’s will offer an $8 Big Mac meal or a $5 Sausage McMuffin meal for a limited time in most of the country.
Kraft Heinz has no plans to change its current headquarter locations in Chicago and Pittsburgh.
“We’ve got crime on the streets,” Pritzker acknowledged last week. “Any person that gets killed or hurt is a victim of crime, is somebody that we ought to be addressing the challenges for. And we’re doing that every day. But the way to do it is with police officers, not with troops.”
Asked by reporters in the Oval Office about sending National Guard troops to Chicago, Trump said, “We’re going in,” but added, “I didn’t say when.”
“If they told me the Easter bunny could come in and fix this,” Miller said, “I’d say, come on down and let’s get this done.”
Pritzker: “…it’s an attack on the American people.”