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On a freezing Tuesday morning after Chicago’s snowiest November day on record, residents of a building that made international headlines after a federal immigration raid earlier this year decried a recent court-ordered mandate to vacate their homes at 7500 South Shore Drive.

The five-story apartment building with its decrepit infrastructure and scarce electricity was the site of a late-night raid in September that was among the most infamous moments in President Donald Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz . Now its residents, who last month formed the South Shore Tenants Union, face the possibility of being thrown out of their homes within days.

The Circuit Court of Cook County granted an order on Nov. 24 from Wells Fargo Bank to have residen

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