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Exclusive: TikToks show South Shore building in ruin long before ICE raided it this week
CWB Chicago ^ | October 4m 2025 | Tim Hecke

Posted on 10/04/2025 6:22:59 AM PDT by PBRCat

Chicago news outlets have published and aired seemingly endless images and videos from inside the South Shore apartment building raided by federal immigration agents this week. You’ve undoubtedly seen them: doors hanging open, apartments torn apart, and hallways left in disarray after the feds left.

What the outlets haven’t shared is what the building looked like before the raid.

The pre-raid videos, posted by Wayne Head, who identifies himself as a former maintenance person at the building, reveal apartment doors splintered and hanging open, deadbolts ripped out. Security camera lenses were covered with thick coats of spray paint to keep anyone from documenting what happened inside the building. The laundry room had been largely stripped, with washing machines pulled from the walls and water pooling across at least one floor. Some units sat wide open while others, doors apparently compromised beyond repair, had been boarded shut with plywood.

[M]any of the building’s residents were Venezuelan squatters. His videos show residents who did not have electricity in their units running extension cords from apartments that did. Others spliced into the wires of illuminated exit signs and ran a cord to their “home.”

“This narrative that it was a sprawling, diverse community building… is absolutely outrageous,” said one person familiar with the property.

Gov. JB Pritzker this week said the state stands prepared to investigate any allegations of abuse or neglect of children by federal agents.

(Excerpt) Read more at cwbchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; brandonjohnson; chicago; crime; housing; illinois; jbpritzker; raid

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In order to malign ICE, the local media and Governor Prtizker have promoted another false narrative about innocent migrants living in peace and harmony before being arrested and scheduled for deportation.
1 posted on 10/04/2025 6:22:59 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

Malign, while a proper word, does not carry the weight of liars lying.


2 posted on 10/04/2025 6:55:12 AM PDT by healy61
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

3 posted on 10/04/2025 8:27:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: PBRCat

The high rises in Shitcago have been that way for years!
I watched them demolish the Robert Taylor homes years ago.
Then there was Cabrini Green. Same story. The savages destroy the place and then cry because of the crap they created.


4 posted on 10/04/2025 9:34:02 AM PDT by Bluebeard16
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To: PBRCat

cwb doesnt know how to post videos?


5 posted on 10/04/2025 9:37:16 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Bluebeard16

I do not believe that this was a public housing building. It was a decaying private apartment building.

The South Shore neighborhood was once a jewel along the lakefront. White families fled the area fifty years ago and it became a ghetto.


6 posted on 10/04/2025 9:47:29 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

Democrats are twp bit liars working with their butt boys in the press to push a lie? Shocked I tell you, I’m shocked.


7 posted on 10/04/2025 11:08:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (Criminals are an important part of democrat strategy. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: PBRCat

I lived on 5454 South Shore Drive. The Shoreland dormitories (now luxury condos). Al Capone used to live there (8th floor, facing the lake).

That area is still okay. But the 7500 area (including Stony Island) was nasty even in the early ‘80s. I would only venture that way if I HAD to have White Castle, and had a ride.


8 posted on 10/04/2025 3:41:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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