With the Trump Administration escalating its crackdown in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson has ordered the creation of “ICE-free zones” throughout the city to limit the areas in which federal authorities can carry out their immigration enforcement operations.

Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara has taken a voluntary leave of absence from his position with the Illinois FOP board.

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker rejected an “ultimatum” from the US Department of War on Saturday to deploy troops in Chicago — and claimed that the Trump administration would respond by federalizing hundreds of Illinois National Guard members.