Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois has a message for President Trump: Keep the military out of Chicago. Via the New York Times:

Mr. Pritzker, a Democrat, stood alongside the Chicago River on Monday afternoon, flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, pastors, business leaders and community organizers, to push back on Mr. Trump’s offhand declaration that he would send the military into the city, as he had done in Los Angeles and Washington.

“Calling the military into a U.S. city to invade our streets and neighborhoods and disrupt the lives of everyday people is an extraordinary action, and it should require extraordinary justification,” Mr. Pritzker said.

“Look around you right now,” he said, gesturing to pedestrians strolling on the city’s popular riverwalk and the “L” trains rumbling nea

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