#608 In-person and Online: The Tenant Trap

A yearlong Injustice Watch investigation found tens of thousands of Chicagoans live in buildings with histories of serious safety violations. Tenants in these buildings regularly face eviction and informal displacement, even when trying to exercise their rights. Reporters Alejandra Cancino and Maya Dukmasova found a dual court system: a lenient one for landlords focused on ensuring buildings are up to code, and a punitive one for tenants focused on getting them out of apartments. The project illustrates how our laws and their enforcement put property rights above the rights of tenants. Dukmasova and Cancino will go through their five-part investigative series and explain how they quantified the problem using three sets of data, how residents fought back, and what solutions are on the table.

This event will be in person, but you can also tune in via livestream. Doors open at 6pm. The livestream and announcements will start around 6:30pm CDT.

In-person: TeamWorking, 20 N Upper Wacker Drive, 12th Floor, Chicago IL. Enter the Civic Opera Building using the entrance in the middle of the block between Washington and Madison streets. Take the elevators to the 12th floor.

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RSVP In-person attendees should RSVP beforehand. As occupancy limits permit, walk-ins will be allowed to enter.

There will be food! We will be serving Costa Rican empanadas, chicken casado and rice from Irazu!