* The Tribune…

The Texas National Guard has arrived in the Chicago area despite the repeated objections of Illinois officials, who have rejected President Donald Trump’s pledge to deploy the military domestically in response to increasingly heated immigration crackdown protests here and in other Democratic-run cities across the country.

Tribune journalists saw several military members, dressed in camouflage and carrying long guns, on federal property in Elwood, a far southwest suburb that is home to a U.S. Army Reserve training center. Soldiers, who had “T” patches on their arms identical to the ones shown in a picture tweeted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday, could be seen walking in and out of mobile sleeping units on the site.

On Monday, a defense contractor told the Tribune that he was setting up sleepers, showers and a dining hall for 250 people at the makeshift base. The contractor, who was working at the site but declined to give his name, said he was unsure how long the troops intended to stay.

From Isabel: The Tribune’s story was updated. The Texas Guard is stationed at a federal property in Elwood at a U.S. Army Reserve training center.

* New York Times…

It’s quiet outside a detention center in Broadview, Ill., where protesters have gathered in recent weeks. Light rain has been falling near the facility this morning, and mainly members of the media are gathered here at the moment. There are no signs of National Guard members.

* Yesterday from the Sun-Times…

National Guard troops could hit Chicago’s streets as soon as Tuesday after a federal judge refused a plea from Illinois’ attorneys to immediately block a deployment they labeled “illegal, dangerous and unconstitutional” in a highly anticipated lawsuit Monday.

U.S. District Judge April Perry acknowledged she was “very troubled by the lack of answers” Monday from a Trump administration lawyer about the deployment, including where in northern Illinois the troops might appear.

But she also said more than 500 pages of filings had suddenly arrived in the form of a lawsuit from Illinois and Chicago against the Trump administration, so she gave the Justice Department until midnight Wednesday to respond.

* Capitol News Illinois…

“If I were the federal government, I’d strongly urge holding off until Thursday,” [Judge Perry] said of the plan to activate troops. But she added, it’s “up to them.”

During the hearing, the DOJ confirmed that members of the Texas National Guard were scheduled to board a plane for Chicago at 4 p.m. But, attorney Jean Lin said, those out-of-state guardsmen would not be “in position to perform their federal protective mission” until Tuesday at the earliest. Members of the Illinois National Guard would similarly not be mobilized until later this week, pending pre-mission trainings, Lin said. […]

Christopher Wells of the Illinois attorney general’s office pleaded with Perry to grant “some form of interim relief” before Thursday’s hearing. He pointed to the “level of disregard the administration has shown” to a federal judge in Oregon who over the weekend ruled Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Portland exceeded his authority. Despite two rulings from the Trump-appointed judge, the feds have mobilized guardsmen anyway from California and Texas to the west coast city.

“This is all part of a concerted effort to target disfavored jurisdictions that the president doesn’t like,” Wells said, urging a temporary restraining order before the federal government “hostilely deploys troops from another state to a sister and equally sovereign state.’’ […]

Before adjourning, the judge told Wells she’s hopeful the state won’t see any of the “nonsense you’re worried about” between now and Thursday. But she said filing evidence of any altercations between National Guard troops and civilians would likely strengthen the state and city’s case.

* Related…

* Crain’s | Judge declines to halt Trump’s National Guard plan yet, sets Thursday hearing: The suit, which was widely expected, follows a similar lawsuit filed in Oregon over the planned deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, where a judge issued an emergency order blocking the deployment there. The Illinois suit escalates a growing clash between Democratic-led states and President Donald Trump over the use of National Guard troops in cities he describes as crime-ridden. Paul Gowder, a constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, says “we’re likely to see similar efforts by the courts to put a halt to this in Chicago as we’ve seen in Portland.” But he warns there’s a risk that such a ruling could be stayed and ultimately the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to continue.

* CBS Chicago | Former Illinois National Guard commander says he’s “never seen” troops called up from out of state before: Richard Hayes is a former U.S. Army Major and former Commander of the Illinois National Guard. He said in all his years of service, he’s never seen anything like this. “I’ve never seen that done before, to federalize a National Guard from another state to send them to another state,” he said. “In my 34 years, I’ve never seen that.”

* NYT | Texas Troops Head to Chicago as Trump Weighs Use of Emergency Powers: The president said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to bypass attempts to block National Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland, Ore. The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, called the mobilization “an unconstitutional invasion.”

* Block Club Chicago | Federal Judge Won’t Immediately Block Troop Deployment After Illinois, Chicago File Lawsuit: In a memo to Illinois National Guard leadership Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the troops could be called into service “effective immediately” and be used in the area for 60 days, according to the Tribune. The troops’ objective would be to guard ICE facilities in Illinois, the Tribune reported.

* Tribune | The National Guard has been activated to Chicago 18 times from 1877-2021. Here’s a breakdown: A review of the Tribune’s archives produced 18 events in which the governor activated the National Guard within Chicago. Two of them — both during the 19th century — involved a sitting U.S. president who acted in coordination with the governor. “The Pullman Strike (1894) and Railroad Strike (1877) were both considered state active duty,” said Adriana Schroeder, command historian for the Illinois National Guard. “Both of those involved the union, spread throughout the United States, and drew the attention of the president who was in close communications with the governors of the affected states.” On occasion, state and city officials have disagreed if a National Guard response was warranted.