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Posted on 10/11/2025 9:54:51 AM PDT by PBRCat
A week after federal agents arrested dozens of people during a military-style immigration raid of a South Shore apartment building, resident Cassandra Murray slowly inches down four flights of stairs because the elevators are broken again.
Murray is disabled and walks with a limp. The 55-year-old wears plastic gloves as she holds onto a railing, pointing out urine spots and feces smeared on the wall in the building where she has lived for a decade.
Murray is on her way to see a new apartment. She says her move wasn’t prompted by the harrowing raid or the Venezuelan immigrants who were targeted — it was the building’s long history of squalor and mismanagement.
The 130-unit complex at 7500 S. South Shore Drive is facing foreclosure, along with two other distressed South Side buildings owned by the same Wisconsin real estate investor, Trinity Flood. The city of Chicago has also sued Flood’s companies over longstanding building code violations.
Many units have been occupied by squatters. And crime in the blocks surrounding the building hasn’t fallen as fast as crime citywide has in recent years.
Murray and other residents blamed Flood and her property manager, as they painted a grim picture of life in the building before immigrants moved in over the past year and it became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign in the Chicago area.
“It was a nasty mess before ICE came,” Murray said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “So don’t nobody keep putting that s--- on ICE, because that was not ICE. Venezuelan immigrants with few other housing options moved into the building, some came with state rental assistance for asylum seekers and others arrived without a lease.
One was charged with murder last month in an execution-style shooting inside an apartment over the summer.
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“The 55-year-old wears plastic gloves as she holds onto a railing, pointing out urine spots and feces smeared on the wall in the building where she has lived for a decade.”
Just another success story for BJ and JB to lie about.
“...And crime in the blocks surrounding the building hasn’t fallen as fast as crime citywide has in recent years.”
But...but...but, but, but Gov. Creosote was on Jimmy Kibble’s show the other night and he said Chicago isn’t a war zone.
‘Unlivable’ conditions festered at Chicago apartment building long before jarring immigration raid”
So they are OKAY then?
Are you suggesting that a “raid” could CAUSE those conditions?
Maybe housing filthy illegals causes it “for a long time” now.
‘Unlivable’ conditions festered at Chicago apartment building long before jarring immigration raid”
So they are OKAY then?
Are you suggesting that a “raid” could CAUSE those conditions?
Maybe housing filthy illegals caused it “for a long time” now.
I am having trouble figuring out what kind of human activity results in feces and urine on the WALLS of a stairwell.
“Karsh said Flood, the out-of-town owner, bears the blame for the deteriorating conditions in the building.
“I can imagine that what was going through her mind was, ‘It’s real estate a block from the lake, and the Obama [Presidential] Center is getting built, this could be the next up-and-coming neighborhood.’ She completely misassessed the cost of doing business in that building … and the people that are paying for it are the people that live in the building,” Karsh said.”
I am having trouble figuring out what kind of human activity results in feces and urine on the WALLS of a stairwell.
I’d try not to think about it, if I were you.
In some parts of the world there’s no TP so you use your hand and wipe it along the wall. In other parts the toilets don’t flush very well so you put the used paper in the trash can.
The South Shore neighborhood was once one of the finest in the City of Chicago. It rapidly declined in the 1970s.
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