The billboards are paid for by the grassroots organization Win Without War. They began appearing in Chicago Oct. 14, and the group has also placed billboards outside Fort Bragg in North Carolina and in Washington,

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the National Guard to protect federal immigration enforcement operations in Chicago.

On Saturday, a federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from deploying federalized National Guard troops in Illinois.

The raid was executed in the heart of South Shore, an overwhelmingly Black neighborhood on Lake Michigan that has long been a tangle of middle-class dreams, urban decay and gentrification.

A photo of chunky Texas National Guard troops in Chicago went viral, and 7 were sent home. But there's nothing soft about Guard fitness standards.

When National Guard troops from Texas started to arrive in Illinois last week, I drove out to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center on the outskirts of Chicago to get a better look at what the soldiers were sent to protect.