About 40 vendors from the south side of the storied mall must shutter their booths by Sunday after Novak Development, the owner of the plaza, announced in February it had reached a deal to extend the lease of only one of the mall’s two operators.
A Cook County judge Friday denied an emergency injunction filed by attorneys representing vendors at the Little Village Discount Mall to prevent the imminent lockout of about 40 vendors from the south side of the storied mall on Sunday.
The hearing took place Thursday, and Cook County Judge Caroline K. Moreland ruled against the injunction Friday.Emergency injunction filed Tuesday to prevent imminent vendor lockout at Little Village Discount MallThe vendors’ attorneys argued that their clients should be should be considered tenants — and not week-to-week licensees, as the operators claim they are — and thus they have all the rights that a tenant would have under a lease agreement.
“Some of these folks have been there for 30 years, 20 years, 15 years, 10 years — long periods of time. They’ve invested significant money bringing in fixtures, shelving, display cases, things to make these into legitimate shops,” Canon told the Tribune on Tuesday. “They’re clearly tenants and, therefore, they should have other rights that you would have under a commercial tenancy in Illinois, and that includes the right not to be just locked out of the property for no reason.
Canon said the case is still not over, and he will back in court for the vendors in July to get them back to the Discount Mall.that it had reached a deal to extend the lease of only one of the mall’s two operators. The deal meant closing one side of the shopping center indefinitely, shuttering nearly half of the vendors who make up the Discount Mall by Sunday.
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