CHICAGO — By the time the city sued her, absentee owner Suzie B. Wilson had let hundreds of properties on Chicago’s South and West sides become so infested with rats and filled with trash and weeds that she owed more than $15 million in fines.
Now, as a result of that case, a Chicago real estate company is selling off more than 800 properties in the South and West side neighborhoods, the largest mass land sale in the city in years.
The sale is tied to a high-profile bankruptcy case against Wilson and her sister, Swedlana Dass — legal action that came out of a joint investigation by the Illinois Answers Project and Block Club Chicago…