The first National Guard troops sent to Chicago by President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at an Army training center outside the city.

The Associated Press saw military personnel in uniforms with the Texas National Guard patch at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, 55 miles (88 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott posted a picture on social media Monday showing Texas National Guard members boarding a plane but didn’t specify where they were going.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has said some 300 of his state’s guard troops were to be federalized and deployed to the nation’s third-largest city, along with 400 others from Texas.

The arrival of National Guard members follows a lawsuit Illinois and Chicago filed Monday alleging that Trump's authorizati

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