Council members got campaign cash from group tied to landlord of troubled building hit in immigration raid

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 23, 2025 | Bob Herguth and Sophie Sherry

[PBRCat]

The property manager of a troubled South Shore apartment building raided last month by immigration agents helps run a political fund that made campaign contributions to more than a dozen members of the Chicago City Council this year.

The recipients include now-former Ald. Walter Burnett (27th), Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice to run the Chicago Housing Authority. One of Burnett’s campaign funds accepted a $500 contribution this year from the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance PAC.

The political action committee’s leaders include Corey Oliver of Strength in Management LLC, which oversees the complex at 7500 S. South Shore Drive that was targeted by a deportation operation Sept. 30.

The raid exposed deplorable conditions that residents say they have complained about for years, including bug-infested hallways, feces smeared on walls, elevators not working, piled-up garbage and crime — made the building “unlivable and inhumane,” according to one resident, who said conditions took “a nosedive” after Oliver’s company was hired last year.

[PBRCat]

Governor Pritzker omitted these facts while blaming ICE for destroying the apartment building and ruining the lives of tenants and squatters who were living in a multicultural paradise before the illegal aliens were arrested.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Egads...”bug-infested hallways, feces smeared on walls, elevators not working, piled-up garbage and crime...conditions took a nosedive after Oliver’s company was hired last year.”

But ICE exposing this corruption and maybe getting conditions improved is bad, bad, bad. And don’t you forget it.

[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.straightupchicagoinvestor.com/podcast/episode-374-taking-on-opportunity-in-chicagos-toughest-neighborhoods-with-corey-oliver

Corey starts by discussing recent compression of cap rates and investment financials in Chicago C/D class neighborhoods. He gets granular on the process for placing and managing CHA tenants. Corey breaks down how he sets investment return expectations for out of state investors looking to invest in lower income neighborhoods. Corey closes with exciting news about his upcoming development project which includes city grants and tax credits!

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city grants and tax credits.................

[PeterPrinciple]

and other peoples money from out of state.

[Fido969]

I have believed for years that the criminal class supports the local pols in blue cities.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Arrest them all for aiding and abetting illegal immigration.

[ScottHammett]

Politicos and others the have profited greatly from the welfare industrial complex since LBJ’s great society programs. Here we are sixty years later. SSDD

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Need a favor / make a donation has always been the Chicago way.