WEST LAWN — Ford City Mall, a Southwest Side fixture recently labeled a “death trap” by local officials, will close June 22, officials said Friday.
The decision comes one month after city officials filed an emergency motion asking a Cook County judge to force all tenants and occupants to evacuate the mall, 7601 S. Cicero Ave., citing a defective fire suppression system that posed an “imminent health and safety risk,” Kristen Cabanban, a spokesperson for the Law Department, previously told Block Club.
Deteriorating and hazardous conditions at the mall include “large vacant spaces, flooding, open wiring, dirty conditions and poor lighting,” according to the emergency motion. “Unidentified leaks in the system” could create a sinkhole, Cabanban previously said…