Posted on 01/08/2024 1:56:58 AM PST by Libloather
HARVEY, Ill. (WLS) -- Harvey city officials said they have been talking with property managers about unfit living conditions and ongoing crime on South Halsted Street since October, but told ABC7 it was the owners who took it upon themselves, on Friday night, to board up the apartments there.
Some residents said they were still inside their homes.
Rudolph Williams spoke from inside.
"I opened the door, and here's this big piece of plywood right there," Williams said.
Williams is now able to walk through his opened front door after, he claims, crews boarded it shut with plywood while he was still inside.
When asked what went through his mind at that moment, Williams said, "Wondering how I was going to get out."
He lives in the apartment complex on South Halsted in Harvey, where many were apparently forced out of their homes on Friday night due to what's being called unsafe and dangerous living conditions.
Issues there, residents said, have been mounting for years.
"My mom was 73 years old, and I had to move her from up over here, because it was too much going on. The stairs had fell down. I fell through the stairs," said James Williams, whose relatives live at the complex.
Mary Brooks, a resident of four years, also weighed in.
"Twenty-four-hour drug activity. One man was shot five times and dropped dead at my back door. There's no one around here picking up trash," Brooks, 66, said. "It's been miserable."
In a statement, Harvey city leaders said, in part, "Contrary to recent claims, the city did not evict anyone from these properties but has communicated with the property owners regarding the unsafe conditions of the buildings and need to immediately rectify the dangerous living conditions."
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Sounds like some of the Ch!tcago properties ValJar owned.
Harvey IL is an open sewer.
L
Chasing rats out of a building does nothing to improve the situation. The rats will just move.
Yes, exactly!
So, these tenants were too drunk, high, or whacked out to hear their own apartments being boarded up? How does one wake up to it already having happened? There had to be pounding and other noise.
That was my question. Who sleeps through all that? It also had to have happened during the day before 5 pm. Bet the dude hasn’t paid rent in years so now has more rights than renters. Boarding him and his elderly mother inside is a fire code violation at the very least so he’s going to be filthy rich after suing the pants off the owner.
Keep voting blue, suckers.
Harvey IL is an unwiped rectum of Illinois. We have several towns like it in that area.
L
Ain’t civilizational collapse grand?
“Ain’t civilizational collapse grand?”
That part of Cook County has been an open sore for years.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Harvey, IL are Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (64.4%), White (Hispanic) (13.3%), Other (Hispanic) (7.53%), Two+ (Hispanic) (6.88%), and White (Non-Hispanic) (3.53)
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I keep telling myself I need to get one of those.
“The headquarters of drug business in Midwest.”
First time I tried pot was in Harvey, 50 years ago.
Never liked the stuff.
The standard story of drug houses in Midwest -
A man from Harvey or Detroit came to town, hook up with some welfare woman and started a drug house.
Subsidized by our tax dollars!
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