On a tree-lined street on Chicago’s South Side, Darren Hightower rearranges some items in the backseat of his decades-old Chevy Trailblazer. This SUV is where he’s been sleeping most nights recently.
“I just lay my seat back in here, crack my windows [open],” he says. “I probably got some clothes back there, but I don’t make it look like I live in there.”
Hightower is one of dozens of former residents of 7500 S. South Shore Dr., a troubled apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood that was raided last September by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s sweeping enforcement campaign…