ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- First it was Los Angeles... then it was Washington D.C. Lately, it's looking like Chicago might be the next stop for the National Guard.

“What possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor or the police?” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said at a news conference in Chicago on Monday.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has said he is considering invoking the Insurrection Act of the Constitution to quell civil unrest. That would allow him to deploy the National Guard to major cities to clean up violent crime.

Trump has used a similar strategy in his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

In that case, he used the centuries old Alien Enemies act t

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