This article was produced by the BGA’s Illinois Answers Project and Chinatown Spotlight.
Chicago Reader’s previous reporting about the Heung Seng Corporation here.
Janice Zhen gestured in exasperation to a large hole above her toilet with exposed pipes and wet wood where her ceiling and wall should have been. It had been leaking since late last year. As spring turned to summer, bugs started flying out of the hole and settling on her children, ages 3 and 7…