CHICAGO (WGN) - President Trump renewed his push to send federal help to Chicago and announced Tuesday that he's made up his mind about a federal surge.

"We're going in. I didn't say when, but we're going in," Trump said. "If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it. Now we're going to do it anyway. We have a right to do it."

This comes after Chicago saw a violent Labor Day weekend that ended with 58 people shot, eight of them fatally.

Meanwhile, the city, county and state's Democratic leaders do not want this, but they're bracing for federal immigration agents and another state's national guard.

Also on Tuesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker spoke at a press conference along with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Lt. Gov

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