Costs mount as National Guard soldiers near Chicago sit on standby

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CHICAGO ( WGN ) — The meter is running on a military deployment that’s yet to have any impact in Chicago.

On a military base an hour southwest of Chicago, National Guard soldiers from Texas are more than a month into a deployment. The Trump administration ordered troops to the area to protect federal property and personnel during immigration enforcement operations.

But service members have not yet left the base in a month for any official purpose because the Supreme Court has yet to decide if deploying U.S. troops in American cities is justified.

“They are somewhere, doing something, but I don’t know exactly what it is,” sai