CHICAGO (June 30, 2022) – A half dozen calls for help from a Rogers Park apartment complex went unheeded by city officials last month amid the season’s first heat wave that killed three senior tenants, a Better Government Association investigation found. That’s because city officials say there was nothing they could do, given the lack of city laws to require landlords to cool their buildings during heat waves.
Attorney Brian Salvi, who is representing the family of one of the women who was killed during the heat wave, recently spoke with the Better Government Association about the case.
“This was not just preventable, it was egregious, and how easy it would have been to flip a switch or something and you change the entire course of three people’s lives,” Mr. Salvi told the BGA.
