“The deployment of federalized National Guard, including from another state, infringes on Illinois’s sovereignty and right to self-governance. It will cause only more unrest, including harming social fabric and community relations and increasing the mistrust of police. It also creates economic harm, depressing business activities and tourism that not only hurt Illinoisians but also hurt Illinois’s tax revenue,” the suit says.

The city and the state want a judge to declare the administration’s federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States or any state National Guard or the deployment of the U.S. military in Illinois as “unconstitutional and/or unlawful.”