Heartless Alliars

Heartland Alliance has a partnership with Hellenic Foundation, and is a contractor to CHA and its Housing Choice Voucher Program. 

The resulting Hollywood House Limited Partnership is the management of the 193 unit, 11 occupied floor Building located at Hollywood and Sheridan in Edgewater called "Hollywood House" 5700-5716 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660. The subject property has 22 pages of City of Chicago violations

Tenants are mixed used Market Rate and subsidized housing residents, 62+ years. 

The rate of visitations by Chicago Fire Department Personnel due to excessive spraying of insecticides and undisclosed mold conditions has been regularly reported to numerous government regulators, officeholders and the media, by myself.

Just because you have moved out and/or you have deceased, does not imply that your CHA sponsored Housing Choice Voucher subsidy is not being received by the management after as much as four (4) years absence and confused with an actual Alive and present tenant who additionally pays the rent, Market Rate and/or with a subsidy.

Case in point: Roseann Thomas, who presently resides in Gurnee,Illinois, was the occupant of unit 818 when, in Mid 2014, she is reported to have started a fire, with her cigarette, which left 3 inches of water on all floors below the eighth floor due to a sprinkler system which did not shut off after repeated attempts to shut it off. We receive her mail frequently and a resident/former employee of the building has publicly acknowledged that subsidies continue for non-residents.[Fire Department FOIA requests for the exact date of the fire remain unanswered after 4 months]

Result, MOLD, and in her subject apartment, 818, to this day, there has been tested [May 1, 2019] 3000 spores of Aspergillus/Penicillium per cubic meter, all undisclosed by management on or after June 1, 2017 when we were, without notice of defects, forced to move from Apartment 810 to Apartment 818, over one weekend, to the site of the fire of which we were never apprised or notified by management, until December18, 2018, when apprised, unofficially by a long-term resident.

My wife, Ermetra Adair Black Thomas, has two (2) separate brain stem events in her medical history including a Sub-arachnoid hemorrhage to the right side of her brain resulting from a 1998 Vehicular-Pedestrian “accidental” event on March 31 1998, and a right stem aneurysm burst on the Job as an employee of the Social Security Administration on April 22, 2002, which subjects her to special harmful effects of mold, including, but not limited to, the fact that recently she started for the first time in her life to use a walker, (May 2019). 

Her two experiences with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago both recommended that she not even use a cane. 

Both of us have multiple colds, Flu and congestive health issues, including, but not limited to, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Obesity, and Pre-Diabetes, Cataracts, and Glaucoma, over the period of our occupancy from December 24, 2014 to date of two eighth floor apartments after our Housing Choice Voucher was stripped from us as of December 19, 2014 by one Mycindra Moore, who was summarily dismissed after one year and nine months as Administrator of the property. The Present Administrator of this building is one Romerio Lucas, whose defective “Landlord’s 5 day Notice” [in lieu of a 7, 10, or 30 day notice, according to another employee, whose given name is Andriana,] received by us on March 22, 2019, though fraudulently stated to have been personally served on us on Sunday, March 10, 2019, a day-of-the-week when Mr. Lucas is NEVER on the property will be adjudicated as shown below.

Subsequently, each of his supervisors, “Candyce” and her superior, “Melissa” “resigned” as announced in a residents’ meeting held on May 14, 2019, on or about May 1 2019.

Also, subsequently, a notice was circulated to all Residents of the building that starting “soon” residents would join a program “initiated” to insure that they might begin, for the first time that any resident of long standing could recall, to receive the interest on their security deposit, as required by The Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance of 1986 as amended. 

The failure to pay such interest was an initial counterclaim of the below entitled action along with Retaliatory Eviction, Implied Warrantee of Habitability, Failure to disclose defects in Real Estate, Failure to include a party to the lease in the action, defective “5 day” notices, overcharging to the extent that we pay 33% of our income for housing, and Pre Paid rent of over $2024.00 of overcharged rent, in the absence of recognition of a voucher, failure to certify the Security Deposit depository, and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, though many of these counts have been stricken. 

Daley Center 1505 Thursday, August 27 and possibly August 30,2019. 

Case 2019M1070500 

HOLLYWOOD HOUSE v Maurice Thomas and unknown others 

[though my wife, Ermetra Adair Black Thomas is a named party to all leases]

Robert Kahn for the Plaintiff, [if he has the time] and a yet-to-be determined Attorney, for the Defendant.