Chicago community leaders forged ahead Wednesday with preparations for the influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents the city is expecting, advising residents about their rights and organizing protests with fresh urgency. Details about the operation are scant, but President Donald Trump has amped up the rhetoric about crime in the nation’s third-largest city, saying an immigration crackdown and National Guard deployment are planned despite the objections of local leaders and a federal court ruling that a similar deployment in Los Angeles was illegal. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/chicago-prepares-for-influx-of-national-guard-troops-and-immigration-agents/507-3cc7524c-ceae-497b-976b-3df0c91c773f