Updated October 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM PDT

A federal judge in Illinois declined to immediately block the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops in the state, giving the administration until Wednesday night to respond to the lawsuit filed by Illinois and Chicago.

The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed the federal lawsuit on Monday against the Trump administration over its effort to deploy National Guard troops to the state, a day after a federal judge blocked any federalized Guard members from deploying to Oregon.

Illinois and Chicago asked the judge to block the Trump administration from federalizing the Illinois National Guard and from sending to Illinois any guard members from other states, including Texas.

But U.S. District Judge April Perry allowed the

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