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(Above) So far, 33 East Bellevue Place, located between Lake Shore Drive and North Rush Street, has needed the least amount of time, 41 days, to get the city’s housing complaint against it dismissed. Addresses of the 95 residential buildings city is suing over Life Safety violations
24-Jun-15 – Ten cases have been dismissed but owners of 85 residential buildings in Chicago, many of them upscale properties north of the Loop, are still working to comply with the city’s new Life Safety ordinance.
Between March 3 and May 14, the city filed 95 lawsuits against owners of buildings that flunked their Life Safety evaluation last year and do not comply, according to one lawsuit, “with the minimum standards of health and safety set forth in the building code.”
Each housing complaint was filed in the Municipal Division of Cook County Circuit Court.
The lawsuits ask the court to require each building owner to correct violations or else pay $500 for every day not in compliance. One of the first buildings sued, 1500 North Lake Shore Drive, has not resolved its case for 113 business days and could be fined as much as $56,500. The amount, however, is a fraction of the property’s value. The condominium currently has two units listed for sale, one for $3.395 million and the other for $3.6 million.
Of the 85 remaining lawsuits, 25 are in the Gold Coast, River North, or Streeterville neighborhoods of downtown Chicago. Three are in the Loop and one is Fulton House, a condominium on the west bank of the Chicago River across from Wolf Point.
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