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The Chicago Police Department said it had sufficient officers to handle any issues at the rally. Escalante said the Trump campaign hadn't consulted with the department before calling off the event.

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PHOTO: A protester raises his fist to supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before a rally on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago, March 11, 2016, in Chicago.
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Trump's rivals chided him Friday after he postponed the rally.

\"I think a campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment. When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates,\" Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters Friday in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. \"Today is unlikely to be the last such instance ... That's not how our politics should occur.\"

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio argued Trump's rhetoric was inciting the violence at his events.

\"There is only one presidential candidate who has violence at their events and I do think Donald needs to realize and take responsibility for the fact that some of the rhetoric he has used could be contributing to this environment that is growing increasingly disturbing for a number of Americans,\" Rubio said Friday in Naples, Florida.

\"The seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly,\" Ohio Gov. John Kasich said in a statement. \"Some let their opposition to his views slip beyond protest into violence, but we can never let that happen. I urge people to resist that temptation and rise to a higher level.\"

Trump has courted criticism for remarks appearing to encourage violence against the protesters who have increasingly been disrupting his rallies. Earlier in the day in St. Louis, he mocked those who interrupted his speech and were removed by police, telling them to \"go get a job\" and one to \"go back to mommy.\"

\"These are people that are destroying our country,\" he said in St. Louis, adding, \"You know part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is no one wants to hurt each other anymore and they’re being politically correct the way they take them out so it takes a little longer.\"

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PHOTO: Sanko Hampton marches in Chicago, March 11, 2016, before a rally with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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After his rally in Chicago was called off, Trump said the protesters there weren't directing their anger at him.

\"This has a lot to do with jobs,\" Trump told Fox News. \"It has a lot to do with incompetent running of a country.\"

Trump was scheduled to hold rallies in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio, and Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday.

Rob Hess contributed to this report.

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