https://www.scmp.com/rss/522846/feed The latest news and top stories on JB Pritzker, an American businessman, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He currently serves as the 43rd Governor of Illinois, having been first elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022. During his governorship, Pritzker has focused on fiscal policy, education, healthcare and criminal justice reform. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters Reuters US ‌President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his administration was removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland ‍but he added in his social media post that federal forces would “come back” if crime rates go up. Local leaders in those cities and Democrats have said the deployments, which have faced legal setbacks and challenges, were unnecessary. They have accused the Trump administration of federal overreach and of exaggerating isolated episodes of violence ⁠to justify... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338353/trump-says-national-guard-being-removed-chicago-la-and-portland?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338353/trump-says-national-guard-being-removed-chicago-la-and-portland?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:11 +0000 Reuters Reuters The US Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send National Guard troops to the Chicago area ‌as the Republican president expands the use of the military for domestic purposes in a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions, a policy critics call an effort to punish adversaries and stifle dissent. The justices let stand for ‍now a judge’s order blocking the deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops in a legal challenge brought by Illinois officials and local leaders. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337553/us-supreme-court-blocks-trumps-national-guard-deployment-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337553/us-supreme-court-blocks-trumps-national-guard-deployment-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:19:02 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transport in Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside a commuter train in November. Governor J.B. Pritzker’s office said in an email on Tuesday that Trump is politicising “a heinous tragedy” while doing nothing to make Illinois communities safer. Federal Transit Authority Administrator Marc Molinaro sent a letter on Monday to Pritzker and Mayor Brandon... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335817/trump-threatens-funding-chicago-transit-after-woman-set-fire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335817/trump-threatens-funding-chicago-transit-after-woman-set-fire?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:50:17 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Mother Mary wearing a respirator mask to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands, wrapped in a thin blanket that looks like aluminium foil. Masked centurions with sunglasses and green vests labelled “ICE”. This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston in suburban Chicago chose to assemble its nativity scene for the Christmas season. The church and its leaders have been vocal critics of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz and expressed a message with their... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335380/baby-jesus-zip-tied-ice-political-nativity-scene-challenges-trump-immigration-policies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335380/baby-jesus-zip-tied-ice-political-nativity-scene-challenges-trump-immigration-policies?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:12:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump did not bring much holiday cheer Tuesday when bestowing ceremonial pardons on two Thanksgiving turkeys, dispensing more insults than goodwill at the traditional White House ritual. He joked about sending the turkeys to an infamous prison in El Salvador that has been used to house migrants deported from the United States. He said the birds should be named Chuck and Nancy – after Democratic stalwarts Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi – but “I would never pardon those... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334147/trump-pardons-turkeys-and-roasts-foes-thanksgiving-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334147/trump-pardons-turkeys-and-roasts-foes-thanksgiving-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:17:54 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump called Wednesday for the Democratic governor of Illinois and mayor of Chicago to be jailed for resisting his mass deportation campaign, a day after armed troops from Texas arrived in the state. Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and third-largest in the country, has become the latest flashpoint in a crackdown by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that has sparked allegations of rights abuses and myriad lawsuits. Masked ICE agents have surged into... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328277/trump-escalates-attacks-calls-jailing-democratic-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328277/trump-escalates-attacks-calls-jailing-democratic-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:47:52 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service In a scathing critique of US President Donald Trump, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired. “This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” Pritzker said in a telephone interview with the Chicago Tribune. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328203/governor-says-trump-deploying-troops-chicago-due-dementia-obsessive-fixations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328203/governor-says-trump-deploying-troops-chicago-due-dementia-obsessive-fixations?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:37:28 +0000 Reuters Reuters Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers gathered on Tuesday at an Army facility outside Chicago, as Donald Trump’s threat to invoke an anti-insurrection law and deploy troops to more US cities intensified the battle over the limits to his authority. The Republican president on Tuesday again left open the possibility that he might use the centuries-old Insurrection Act to sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of Guard troops into Democratic-led cities, over the objections of local... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328166/trumps-insurrection-act-threat-escalates-showdown-democratic-us-cities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328166/trumps-insurrection-act-threat-escalates-showdown-democratic-us-cities?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:21:31 +0000 Reuters Reuters The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued US President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federalised National Guard troops to Chicago, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas headed to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump then escalated the widening clash with Democratic-led states and cities over the domestic use of military forces, threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act as a means to circumvent court restrictions on deploying troops where they... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328057/illinois-leaders-sue-stop-trumps-national-guard-deployment-plan-after-portland-ruling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328057/illinois-leaders-sue-stop-trumps-national-guard-deployment-plan-after-portland-ruling?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:15:58 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump authorised 300 National Guard troops for deployment to Illinois, over the objection of state officials, as part of his campaign to use state troops to aid federal officers conducting immigration arrests. “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said on Saturday. The order signals an escalation in the administration’s focus on Chicago, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327896/trump-send-national-guard-illinois-he-puts-pressure-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327896/trump-send-national-guard-illinois-he-puts-pressure-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:46:41 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy federal troops to another US city, as he made a surprise visit to a Washington DC restaurant in a bid to argue his federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement is working. “We’ll announce it probably tomorrow, and it’s going to be something where we will do like we did here,” Trump told reporters Tuesday outside Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, an upscale surf and turf restaurant near the White House. The president said he was working... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324980/trump-dines-out-near-white-house-and-says-hell-send-troops-another-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324980/trump-dines-out-near-white-house-and-says-hell-send-troops-another-city?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:33:52 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump has started his immigration crackdown in Chicago, with federal agents stepping up enforcement in an escalating campaign against Democratic-run cities that the White House said were suffering from rampant crime and disorder. Operation Midway Blitz has begun in the city and other parts of Illinois targeting “criminal illegal aliens”, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Monday. DHS blamed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat and potential... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324844/trump-administration-launches-immigration-crackdown-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324844/trump-administration-launches-immigration-crackdown-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:17:27 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime, potentially expanding the number of cities around the nation where he may send federal law enforcement. Trump has already said he plans to send the National Guard into Chicago and Baltimore following his administration deploying troops and federal agents to patrol the streets of Washington last month. “So we’re making a determination now,” Trump told reporters... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324251/trump-hints-us-troops-could-go-new-orleans-blue-city-red-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324251/trump-hints-us-troops-could-go-new-orleans-blue-city-red-state?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:31:11 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, an extraordinary effort to militarise the country’s third-largest city that was likely to trigger a legal battle with local officials. “We’re going in. I didn’t say when, but we’re going in,” Trump told reporters at the White House. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson swiftly condemned the action. “He just wants his own secret police force that will do publicity stunts whenever his poll numbers... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324117/trump-send-national-guard-troops-chicago-were-going?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324117/trump-send-national-guard-troops-chicago-were-going?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:54:51 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The mayor of Chicago pushed back on Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to surge federal officers into the nation’s third-largest city, which could take place within days. The Chicago Police Department will be barred from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge, according to an executive order signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. The mayor directed all city... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323795/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-defies-trumps-immigration-crackdown-plan-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323795/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-defies-trumps-immigration-crackdown-plan-city?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:47:01 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested Americans would like a dictator as he signed orders to tighten his federal clampdown on the capital Washington and to prosecute flag-burners. In a rambling 80-minute event in the Oval Office, Trump lambasted critics and the media as he complained that he was not getting credit for his National Guard-backed crackdown on crime and immigration. “They say ‘We don’t need him. Freedom, freedom. He’s a dictator. He’s a dictator.’ A lot of people are saying:... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323116/trump-suggests-americans-dictator-he-signs-order-washington-clampdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323116/trump-suggests-americans-dictator-he-signs-order-washington-clampdown?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:57:33 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump on Friday said Chicago is likely to be the next target of his efforts to crack down on crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. Trump indicated that the Midwestern city could receive similar treatment to what he has done in Washington, where he has deployed 2,000 troops on the streets. “I think Chicago will be our next,” Trump told reporters at the White House, adding, “And then we’ll help with New York.” The comments came as the Pentagon on Friday began ordering... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323109/chicago-officials-slam-trumps-threat-over-military-deployment-stay-out-our-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323109/chicago-officials-slam-trumps-threat-over-military-deployment-stay-out-our-city?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:00:14 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand his military deployments to more Democratic-led cities, responding to an offer by Maryland’s governor to join him in a tour of Baltimore by saying he might instead “send in the troops”. Last week, Trump said he was considering Chicago and New York for troop deployments similar to what he has unleashed on the nation’s capital, where thousands of National Guard and federal police officers are patrolling the streets. Trump made the threat to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323005/trump-expands-cities-targeted-possible-military-deployment-baltimore?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323005/trump-expands-cities-targeted-possible-military-deployment-baltimore?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:09:27 +0000