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JB Pritzker

JB Pritzker
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.
Surveillance footage shows a man holding a flaming bottle and approaching a passenger on a Chicago Blue Line train in November. Photo: Chicago Transit Authority/US District Court Northern District of Illinois via AP
Donald Trump

Trump threatens funding for Chicago transit after woman set on fire

The Illinois governor says the US president is politicising a ‘heinous tragedy’ in which a man is accused of dousing the victim in petrol.

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‘If Jesus were born in America now’: church’s nativity challenges ICE policy

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This Thanksgiving, Trump pardons turkeys and roasts foes

Donald Trump

Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor, governor as troops move in

US president accuses the Democratic leaders of failing to protect federal agents, escalating the political battle over military deployments in US cities.

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Members of the Texas National Guard at an army reserve training facility in Elwood, Illinois. Photo: AFP
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Governor says Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’, fixations

J.B. Pritzker calls Donald Trump ‘mentally impaired’ as the US president considers invoking the Insurrection Act.

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Trump’s Insurrection Act threat escalates showdown with Democratic US cities

Troops from the Texas National Guard are gathered outside Chicago, as the US leader seeks to expand the power of the presidency.

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‘Trump’s invasion’: Illinois sues to halt National Guard deployment to Chicago

US president suggests invoking the Insurrection Act to sidestep any court restrictions to deploying troops to police US cities.

Tear gas rises during a standoff with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal officers in the Little Village neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
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Trump to send National Guard to Illinois, as he puts pressure on Chicago

Tensions are flaring between federal agents and protesters over increased activity by ICE officers cracking down on immigrants.

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Trump dines out near White House and says he’ll send troops to another US city

The US president made a surprise visit to a Washington restaurant to showcase his law enforcement crackdown.

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Trump administration launches immigration crackdown in Chicago

Federal agents have begun ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ in the third-largest US city, targeting ‘criminal illegal aliens’.

A police officer outside of an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois. Immigrants are processed there before being deported. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump

Trump suggests US troops could go into New Orleans, a blue city in a red state

The US president has already said he plans to send the National Guard into Chicago and Baltimore.

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Members of the National Guard patrol near Union Station in Washington in August. Photo: TNS
Donald Trump

‘We’re going in’: Trump to send National Guard troops to Chicago

The US president has threatened to expand his crackdown on Democrat-led cities, following similar moves in Washington and Los Angeles.

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Donald Trump

Chicago mayor defies Trump’s immigration crackdown plan for the city

Johnson told city departments to guard the constitutional rights of Chicago residents amid the ‘possibility of National Guard deployment’.

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Donald Trump

Trump suggests Americans ‘like a dictator’ as he clamps down on Washington

Trump complained that he was not getting credit for his National Guard-backed crackdown on crime and immigration in the US capital.

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Soldier patrol outside the National Guard’s headquarters at the DC Armoury near the Washington Monument on Monday. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
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‘Stay out of our city’: Chicago officials slam Trump’s military deployment threat

Local officials and activists called the potential federal deployment of troops ‘uncoordinated’ and an ‘authoritarian power grab’.

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A busy street in downtown Chicago as a train passes along overhead tracks during morning rush hour traffic. Photo: Shutterstock
Donald Trump

Trump expands cities targeted for possible military deployment to Baltimore

Trump made the threat in a row with Maryland’s governor, who has criticised Trump’s flex of power aimed at combating crime in Washington.

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