Hundreds of protesters hit the streets around the Chicago area Wednesday evening as National Guard troops were anticipated to be deployed in the Chicago area.

Earlier in the day, a military source told the Sun-Times that Texas National Guard troops were expected to head to the Broadview ICE facility in the west suburbs.

Details were scant on how many troops would be arriving or when, and there were no signs of troops arriving there late Wednesday. But the deployment was expected to entail 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard and 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard, according to a publicly available mission summary from the U.S. military.

The expected troop deployment came as a couple dozen protesters gathered outside the Broadview facility in designated free speech zon

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