{"id":52133,"date":"2025-11-16T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/52133\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:24:10","slug":"texas-national-guard-members-to-leave-illinois-official-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/52133\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas National Guard members to leave Illinois, official confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas National Guard<\/a> is leaving Illinois after being activated and sent, but never deployed.<\/p>\n

A National Guard defense official from the U.S. Northern Command confirmed Sunday that all 200 Texas National Guard members now in Illinois will be leaving in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The Illinois National Guard remains activated at this time, but the Texas National Guard is returning to Texas, the official said.<\/p>\n

The Texas National Guard members arrived in Illinois in early October.<\/a> They were stationed at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, near Joliet, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The National Guard troops from Texas were originally brought to protect federal immigration agents and facilities. But a federal judge blocked a National Guard deployment to the Chicago area<\/a> pending a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, and so the Texas troops were never deployed.<\/p>\n

It was not clear what would happen next with the Elwood training center now that the National Guard members are leaving.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino\u00a0has left Chicago for North Carolina<\/a>. The man who has led the Chicago immigration crackdown<\/a> Operation Midway Blitz left the city Thursday, CBS News confirmed the following day. <\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security also closed its command center at Naval Station Great Lakes in the northern suburbs.<\/p>\n

While Bovino has now left Chicago, Operation Midway Blitz is not over, according to sources. Some CBP agents are expected to stay in Chicago and the surrounding area.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas National Guard is leaving Illinois after being activated and sent, but never deployed. A National Guard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1014,4203,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-52133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-illinois","9":"tag-national-guard-of-the-united-states","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}