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Some 300 Illinois National Guard members, activated by the Trump administration as part of the Operation Midway Blitz deportation raids and over the objections of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, have spent more than a month housed not at a federal installation but at a state-owned National Guard training site — an arrangement that comes as determining precise costs for the Guard deployments in Illinois and across the nation remains a moving target.

Despite Pritzker’s opposition to the deployments as a whole, he’s allowed the federalized Illinois National Guard troops to be stationed at the Illinois Army National Guard training area in Marseilles, about 75 miles southwest of Chicago.

Republican President Donald Trump activated the troops earl

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