The only question for OP and other chicagonians: why don't you organize and push back?

It seems like the overwhelming majority of city population including local police doesn't support this, so go ahead and do something instead of crying on HN.

There are protests everyday you walnut and the administration is using that as a pretense to move in honest to god military troops.

Nearly everyone I know (including my 80 year old neighbor) has been to a protest. You can go to an organizing meeting any day of the week in any neighborhood in the city. We are all walking around with whistles for signaling when ice comes and kids are making them on 3d printers in the library.