Hundreds of protesters hit the streets around the Chicago area Wednesday evening as National Guard troops were anticipated to be deployed in the Chicago area.

Texas National Guard troops were expected to show up as early Wednesday evening to the Broadview ICE facility in the west suburbs, a military source told the Sun-Times.

Details were scant on how many troops would be arriving, and there were no signs of troops arriving there late Wednesday. But the deployment was expected to entail 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard and about 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard, according to a publicly available mission summary from the U.S. military.

The expected troop deployment came as several dozen protesters gathered outside the Broadview facility in designated free speech zo

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