Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said he would use any legal tool to fight against any “unlawful deployment of the military against our American citizens.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, however, did not directly answer questions about on what instructions Chicago police would be given if federal troops are deployed.

“Trump doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally send the National Guard to Illinois except in very limited circumstances, since federally activated troops are otherwise barred by the Posse Comitatus Act from policing on U.S. soil.”

Emanuel said the federal government could help cities combat crime by leveraging technology that helps prevent carjacking, prosecuting gang members, and focusing on gun-related crimes. “Is (Presdient Trump) going to try to put National Guard around Michigan Avenue or downtown, or is it going to go into Englewood or other parts of the city that do have a crime problem and do have to be approached? … Partner with us. Don’t try to come in and act like we can be an occupied city.”

“Okay, JB Pritzker, you’re up. Donald Trump is coming after Chicago next, now that he’s ‘solved crime’ in Washington, D.C. And since the mayor of Chicago is kind of a joke—that’d be Brandon Johnson, whose approval rating is 26 percent, which (on the bright side) is up from the 7 percent approval he enjoyed earlier this year—most eyes will be focused on you, the governor of Illinois and a tier-one 2028 presidential contender, to take charge of the counter-argument.”

“If Pritzker lacks the courage to reinstate fiscal oversight, advocates should press for federal intervention. Bringing CPS under a Federal Education Consent Decree could finally address what many parents rightly see as an education apartheid system in which poor overwhelmingly Black and Latino families are trapped in failing neighborhood schools, as determined by their ZIP code.”

A new video surfaced showing men claiming to be violence interrupters heckling and interfering with Chicago cops who were arresting a man accused of illegally carrying a gun with an extended ammunition magazine. This isn’t the first time violence interrupters have wound up on the wrong side of troubling situations.

“Thousands of men and women work in violence intervention. They directly and indirectly serve thousands of people at risk and tens of thousands of grieving parents, orphaned children and traumatized survivors. Along with police and others, they are making Chicago safer.”

Arne Duncan: “President Trump has managed to put at risk years of hard work underway in cities across America to bring down crime, restore trust in the police and expand proven approaches to public safety that can save lives and money. High on Mr. Trump’s list of target cities is my hometown, Chicago, which is currently on track for the lowest number of homicides in any year since 1965…. One factor contributing to the positive trends in Chicago is the growth of community violence intervention programs, or C.V.I. I help lead one of them.”

“Yes, I feel safe in the city of Chicago. I’m born and raised in this neighborhood right here, in North Lawndale, and I have witnessed its development, its transition, its pivoting,” said lifelong resident Vincent Brown. “Without order, there’s chaos. And I figuratively know that he’s [President Trump] going to bring a change that’s going to be felt by the mass population, that’s going to be beneficial for everyone.”

“The city’s own policies, such as the Affordable Requirements Ordinance, which mandates that developers include affordable units, are grossly limited by aldermanic control over zoning.”

The city is not prioritizing traffic enforcement. Just 0.7 percent of traffic tickets issued by CPD were for speeding in 2023, while two-thirds of traffic stop tickets were for issues not related to safety, such as expired plates and broken taillights, one study found. Additionally an Illinois law prohibited the state from building safety features such as pedestrian islands, and instead required IDOT design all of its roads to accommodate semitrailers.

“It’s pretty straight forward for us: you either support the Constitution or you do not,” the mayor said on The Weekend.

“The CTU and the mayor do not care whether additional borrowing drives the district toward insolvency. In fact, the crisis is the goal. It creates more leverage to demand more money from Springfield. Ironically, the CTU’s ruling caucus – the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, of which (President Stacy Davis) Gates is a member – formed in 2008 as a reading group focused on Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine,’ a book which popularized the phrase ‘disaster capitalism.'”

The ages of the victims range from 5 to 48.