City Reaches Tentative $11.5 Million Settlement With Companies Of Woman Dubbed 'Worst Landowner'

City Reaches Tentative $11.5 Million Settlement With Companies Of Woman Dubbed 'Worst Landowner'

The city is also ramping up legal battles against two other landowners who have millions in unpaid fines.

City Reaches Tentative $11.5M Settlement With Companies of Woman Dubbed 'Worst Landowner'

The city of Chicago has reached a tentative, $11.5 million agreement to settle its legal battle against the companies of a north suburban woman that city attorney’s have dubbed Chicago’s “worst landowner,” who has accrued millions of dollars in unpaid fines for hundreds of weed-strewn and garbage-filled lots across the South and West Sides. The settlement would resolve the city’s ongoing legal claims, which are estimated at $49 million and speed…