Good morning, Chicago.

As President Donald Trump has recently threatened to send federal troops to clean up Chicago’s violence, local officials have trumpeted a factor complicating his plans: Crime is down in the city .

It’s a feather in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s cap that he has highlighted as a political win all year, but one that’s become especially salient as the White House has suggested again and again that Chicago could be next in Trump’s military crackdown of major cities.

A surge of immigration agents in Chicago, dubbed “Midway Blitz” by the White House, began last week before Trump said Friday he would send the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, with the blessing of its Democratic mayor. But his ongoing obsession with Chicago as a “hellhole” places the truth of its notorious

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