Patrick Gilmore was on his way to the Clark/Lake CTA train station with a friend Sunday afternoon when they came across a line of federal immigration agents near the Dearborn Street Bridge downtown and unexpectedly stumbled onto a viral moment.

As Gilmore waited to cross the street, a cyclist approached, taunted the agents and — after a brief exchange — jetted off west along Wacker Drive as agents chased after him, Gilmore, 25, recalled in a recent interview with the Tribune.

Those moments, captured on video garnered widespread attention online, felt surreal, Gilmore said.

“It just felt like we were in an actual movie,” he said.

On North Michigan Avenue, from Tribune Tower to Millennium Park, dozens of federal immigration agents were seen patrolling downtown Chicago on Sunday afterno

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