• Alex Nitkin
    MAY 06, 2021
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    Housing organizers scramble after judge strikes down key renter protection ordinance

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    Then-Ald. Dick Mell (33) promoting the Keep Chicago Renting Ordinance in 2013, with future 1st Ward Ald. Daniel La Spata behind him [Erin Hegarty]

    An Illinois appellate court has overturned a landmark 2013 Chicago ordinance designed to protect renters whose buildings are foreclosed upon, portending a potential wave of evictions just as pandemic-related safeguards are set to expire.

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