Illinois and Chicago Sue to Block National Guard Deployment — Take Swipe at Trump Admin Over ‘Department of War’

Sarah Rumpf Oct 6th, 2025, 8:06 pm

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The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against the Trump administration objecting to the deployment of federal troops, and included an admonition that the renaming of the Department of Defense was not legally valid.

The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against President Donald Trump and several other federal agencies and officials including the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem , the Department of Defense, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth .

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