Friday lunchtime, a guy was walking his fluffy dog at the corner of Henderson and Lakewood streets in Chicago’s leafy Lakeview neighborhood. On any other sunny, autumnal Friday, such a stroll would have been as calming and uneventful as the city gets.

But on this most recent one, the man found himself at what looked like a scene from the TV show “Chicago Fire,” which has filmed on and around this very block: he came upon screaming, yelling, fighting, spilled blood, tear gas canisters and masked federal agents in military-style fatigues moving their vehicle backward down a one-way street as an infuriated neighborhood repelled them with all the force its collective voice could muster.

The man responded in kind: screaming and hollering at the agents as they took a man away from a $300,000 r

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