Deadline to move out arrives for tenants of South Shore building raided by feds

Friday, December 12, 2025
CHICAGO (WLS) -- People have until Friday to move out of a South Shore building that a judge called, "unlivable."

With the holidays weeks away and ahead of a brutally cold weekend, some people in South Shore are forced to find a new place to live.



People living in an apartment building at 75th and South Shore are required to move out by Friday.

The building was at the center of an infamous "Operation Midway Blitz" raid.



A Cook County judge denied tenants' request earlier this week asking for more time to find a place to live, calling the building "a fire trap" over numerous safety issues.

But Tenants said some of the conditions were left after federal agents raided the building in September.

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The Trump Administration released a highly produced video of the incident.

Tenants said they received an eviction notice the day before Thanksgiving. Some tenants even ended up forming a tenants' union.



Though all parties seem to agree that the building is unlivable, they said finding a new home mid-winter has been difficult.

"I don't have anywhere to go," tenant Larry Asher said. "I'll be homeless Friday where it stands now. I don't have anywhere to go."

"People have been trying to get out of this building," Infiniti Gant of Southside Together said. "It's not that people don't want to leave. It's not that people are dragging their feet, it's that it's hard."

A judge also denied a motion of for each tenant to receive $7,500 to help relocate - adding tenants are being offered a fair amount to relocate based on their rent.

Some people fear they could very well end up without a place to live as they are forced to move out with little assistance.



Union advocates started a fund to help people relocate with all of them expected to be out of the building at some point Friday.
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