City officials are again turning to the courts to find a solution to constant habitability concerns at Skyline Apartments, the notorious apartment building that has had such issues for at least about four years.
The city filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Skyline’s Chicago-based owners Clear Investment Group, seeking to wrest control of the building away from the investment group in favor of a court-appointed third party that would help turn the building around.
The city is also seeking a $2 million investment from Clear to help the third-party receiver fix the building. That’s a far cry from the $4.6 million the investment firm estimated would take to fix the building in 2023. Clear, the city alleges, also owes an additional $355,000 in payment for more than a hundred uncorrected property code violations…