By Illinois Review
President Donald Trump made a quick swing through Chicago on Friday night – staying at his luxury 5-star hotel before departing for a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday as polls show Trump widening his lead in key swing state races just 37 days before November’s election.
Earlier on Friday, Trump met with Ukranian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower in New York City before heading to Michigan where he delivered remarks at an afternoon rally and appeared at a town hall in the evening. Trump Force One was spotted landing at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport at 10:15 pm local time on Friday. Once in the city, the large motorcade with a heavy police presence made its way on Lower Wacker Drive and arrived at Trump International Hotel & Tower underground.
Chicago, the host city for the Democratic National Convention in August, has dominated the headlines as over 30,000 migrants – many from Venezuela, have arrived in the sanctuary city since 2022 – angering local residents as Democratic leaders have allocated over $400 million to house, clothe and feed the migrants as local residents plead for help and assistance.
Violent Venezuelan gangs are now terrorizing sanctuary city neighborhoods including in Chicago – taking over neighborhoods and housing units, and many predict that a street war will erupt with international gangs who were allowed to enter the U.S. through the Biden-Harris open border policies. Local gangs are said to be reaching their breaking point.
Since 2022, there has been an 11,000 percent increase in arrests of Venezuelans in Chicago. A string of burglaries are also popping up in the Chicagoland suburbs as migrants freely roam the streets.
Additionally, over 225,000 high priority 911 calls went unanswered in Chicago in 2023 because of a smaller police force – leaving residents and visitors to the city in grave danger. To make matters worse, since 2019, the Chicago Police Department is hemorrhaging officers as burnt out cops quit, retire or relocate to other departments in the suburbs where political leadership are more supportive of the police.
According to the Chicago Department of Human Resources, over 3,300 police officers have left the department since 2019. During that same time frame, only 1,600 officers were hired – leaving the city with a massive police shortage.
After a string of embarrassing media interviews, including one with Oprah Winfrey where she wandered off and delivered a bizarre word salad to basic questions, Vice President Kamala Harris is proving that she is unable to communicate her message without a teleprompter. During one point in her interview with Oprah, she interacted with a Pennsylvania woman who talked about the high cost of living, and she offered this response:
“Yours is a story I hear around the country as I travel. In terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American dream is for this generation and recently far more illusive than it’s been. And we need to deal with that.”
And the polls are reflecting Harris’ inability to effectively communicate a winning message as polls show President Trump leading in key swing state races. In Arizona, Trump has taken a 6-point lead over Harris according to Suffolk/USA Today. Polling also has Trump ahead in Georgia as he gains momentum with less than 40 days before the election.
Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks on Saturday in Prairie du Chien, WI. On Sunday, he travels to Erie, PA for an afternoon rally.
