After more than four years of neglect by the owners of the 150-unit Lakeside Tower apartments near downtown Waukegan led to conditions Mayor Ann Taylor called “inhumane,” a new owner plans to spend more than $20 million overhauling the building.
Bianca Jackson, a resident since 2019, is one tenant who is thrilled with the attitude of Aequo and its plans. It will give her an apartment with a new kitchen, bathroom and a view of Lake Michigan for no more than 30% of her annual income.
Before individual units are renovated, Valery said he is going to enhance security in the lobby, make sure both elevators work permanently — Jackson said only one was operating Wednesday — and make the unlivable units livable. He anticipates the project will take two years. Jackson said Wright co-chaired the tenants’ union with her. The organization brought the conditions and lack of security to the city’s attention. Their advocacy led to a lawsuit by the city against now former owner Apex Waukegan IL, and eventually the sale.“None of this would have been possible without her,” Jackson said. “We had to make sure her work was not in vain.”
“I was fed up with the deplorable and inhumane conditions existing at Lakeside Towers,” Taylor said in an email. “Screens were missing from windows and trash was thrown from the upper stories of the building because the trash chutes were chronically clogged. Plumbing issues resulted in some residents not even being able to use their bathrooms.”
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