Illinois is investigating claims that the landlord of a South Shore building at the center of a widely publicized immigration raid last year tipped off federal agents in an attempt to intimidate the residents out of the building.
The Illinois Department of Human Rights announced late Wednesday that it filed a formal housing discrimination charge and opened an investigation into the owners and managers of the building: 7500 Shore A LLC, Trinity Flood, and Strength in Management LLC.
In a statement, the agency said it is looking into claims the landlords let federal agents know of Venezuelan immigrants living in the building as part of an attempt to “intimidate and coerce the building’s Black and Hispanic tenants into leaving the building.”…