Judge temporarily blocks National Guard deployment to Illinois

By A Martínez

Published October 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM EDT

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Illinois, expressing skepticism about the government's depiction of protests in a Chicago-area suburb.

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