Roy Lipford had been looking forward to a visit with his brother Michael, a longtime West Sider, this spring.
The family needed some positivity, he said, after Roy’s daughter died unexpectedly in February. He’d retired that same month and had been excited to return to Chicago, where he’d lived as a young adult and where Michael had spent most of his life.
Instead, Roy Lipford found himself in town last week to identify Michael’s remains. Michael, 68, one of 11 siblings, was found dead in the basement of his partially burned North Lawndale home on March 7…