CHICAGO: Residents of an assisted living facility who are being forced out so the building can be converted into luxury apartments will have their day in court, a judge has ruled.
The court has sided with the seven remaining seniors and threw out a motion to dismiss their case against the facility and the owner.
The seniors, who include a Holocaust survivor and a 100-year-old, sued after the owner abruptly announced that he was closing the assisted living facility, leaving residents just 90 days to find new homes.
Since then most of the 130 residents have left, but a handful remain. They say they’ve been subjected to harassment as the owner has tried to get them to leave the building so he can sell it to developers…