CHICAGO (WLS) -- Anticipation is building for the expected surge in National Guard troops and ICE agents in Chicago. The only question now is when.

One day after the president signaled it was a sure thing the National Guard was coming to Chicago, now he's suggesting he might send them somewhere else: New Orleans.

Meanwhile, crews began boarding up the windows of the ICE detention center in Broadview on Wednesday as the village's mayor says for the next 45 to 60 days it will serve as the primary base for the large-scale federal operation that Governor JB Pritzker says could begin as soon as this weekend.

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Broadview's mayor is preparing for possible protests to play out at the ICE detention center in the village as it will soon serv

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