Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Saturday afternoon aimed at holding federal law enforcement in the city to municipal rules on policing while also keeping tabs on new deployments and informing citizens of their rights.

The order, the “Protecting Chicago Initiative,” comes after the Chicago Sun-Times first reported that Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago was being considered as a possible staging ground for an immigration blitz that could bring more than 200 federal agents to the area from Tuesday to Sept. 30.

On Saturday night, two sources familiar with base operations confirmed to the Sun-Times that the Department of Defense haD secured Naval Station Great Lakes to serve as a command center but not housing for agents.

Johnson said information received by the ci

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