The U.S. Department of Homeland Security closed its command center Friday afternoon at Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, ending a two-month-plus stay in conducting immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area as part of Operation Midway Blitz.

Gregory Jackson, the chief of staff to North Chicago Mayor Leon Rockingham Jr., said he learned from an official at the naval base that DHS was leaving the building it has used as its command center since Sept. 5.

It was not immediately clear what the closing of the naval station command center means to the future of federal immigration enforcement operations in Lake County and the rest of the Chicago area.

Rockingham said everyone in Lake County can rest a little easier with DHS, the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and

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