In the wake of President Donald Trump seeming to declare war on Chicago in a social media post evoking the movie “Apocalypse Now,” the city is fighting back with its own campaign advocating civic love, not war.

On Thursday — two days before Trump’s “Chipocalypse Now” post showed helicopters flying past the city’s skyline ablaze — Choose Chicago fired off a preemptive social media strike as the president’s threatened military intervention and inflammatory rhetoric took aim at the city.

The campaign, dubbed “All for the Love of Chicago” by the city’s tourism arm, invites residents and visitors alike to post photos, videos and stories on Instagram and TikTok depicting Chicago in a more flattering light. The intent is to refute Trump’s dystopian urban narrative that “Chicago is a hellhole ri

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