A group of resident who have been forced out of two building at Algonguin Apartments said they are tired of staying at a hotel.
Hundreds of people were displaced after Algonquin Apartments run by Mac Properties in Hyde Park experienced a power outage amid cold Chicago weather.said they are tired of staying at a hotel.
"I really just feel like a person who has paid all this money, all this rent, and no answers were given to me. It's kind of disheartening to me," said Olga Cortez, who also lives at Algonguin. ComEd said, " replaced two basement boilers with roughly 70 individual electric water heaters in each building, but failed to contact ComEd to upgrade their service to ensure the ComEd equipment could accommodate the increased load demand."The Mac Properties spokesman declined an interview with ABC7 but said they are making repairs and hope to have inspectors review the repairs as early as this weekend.
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