Fact-check: “The national guard is in Chicago right now”
Verdict: False (88% confidence)
The documented record shows that National Guard troops were federalized and staged in the Chicago area in October 2025, but were never actually deployed into Chicago streets due to court orders. On December 31, 2025, Trump announced he was withdrawing the deployment, and by January 21, 2026, all federalized Illinois National Guard troops were returned to local control. A U.S. District Court dismissed the related Illinois lawsuit in April 2026, noting the deployment orders were 'no longer operat…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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