Hundreds of Illinois National Guard Troops are heading to Afghanistan. Governor J.B. Pritzker was on Chicago's South Side Sunday for a sendoff ceremony for the 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry Regiment. A mobilization ceremony was also held at the Readiness Center in Kankakee (Sunday).

An estimated 400 soldiers are going to Afghanistan in support of the country's Operation Freedom's Sentinel. The deployment is the largest mobilization of Illinois National Guardsmen and women in nearly a decade.

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