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Since Operation Midway Blitz began, the facility that temporarily houses immigration detainees in west suburban Broadview has become a lightning rod at odds with its otherwise unassuming two-story brick building.

While protesters have regularly clashed with police and agents outside, the conditions inside have come under increasing scrutiny , even as few people who are not workers or detainees have laid eyes on the interior.

A cadre of attorneys and a judge today will be among the first outsiders to tour the building since the enforcement operation began, as they litigate a class-action lawsuit about the facility’s allegedly inhumane conditions.

But in 2009, Chicago Tribune reporter Antonio Olivo and photojournalist Alex Garcia got a rare look inside the b

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