Owner Of Wicker Park Building Where Façade Fell On Woman Was Told To Make Emergency Repairs Last Month

By Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS Chicago:

CHICAGO (CBS) — New details emerged Thursday about a crumbling Wicker Park building, in front of which a woman was critically injured when part of the façade fell a day before.

As CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reported, the building's owner was told to make emergency repairs last month.

Red emergency tape was still strung up late Thursday at the northeast corner of Ashland and Milwaukee avenues. At the building right on the corner at 1227 N. Milwaukee Ave., much of the brick substructure is now exposed after part of the limestone façade fell the day before – and crews later came in to begin removing the rest.

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