The Pentagon has been planning a potential military deployment in Chicago for the past several weeks.

According to officials who spoke with the Washington Post, troops could be deployed to the third-largest U.S. city as early as September. The report noted that Trump administration officials were weighing a mission like the one carried out in Los Angeles in response to days of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. That action sent 4,000 members of the California National Guard and several hundred Marines to the city.

The insiders shared that the idea of sending several thousand active-duty members of the military to the Windy City had been broached, but seemed unlikely. The Department of Defense declined to comment when reached by the Post.

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