Illinois Department of Human Rights
555 W. Monroe, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60661

• All tenants and persons residing in the property at 7500 S. Shore, Chicago, IL 60649 as of September 29, 2025

• Discriminating in making available a real estate transaction (Section 3-102(A))
• Altering the terms, conditions, or privileges of a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith (Section 3-102(B))
• Aiding and abetting in interference, coercion, or intimidation (Section 6-101.5(B))

• Race
• Ancestry
•  National Origin

7500 South Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60649

Trinity Flood
[Address Redacted]

7500 Shore A LLC
[Address Redacted]

Strength In Management LLC
[Address Redacted]

7500 Shore B LLC
[Address Redacted]

Corey Oliver, Individually, and in His Capacity as Property Manager and CEO
Strength In Management LLC
[Address Redacted]

The Illinois Department of Human Rights (“IDHR” or “Department”) files this Department-initiated charge as authorized by the Illinois Human Rights Act, 775 ILCS 5/1-103.

7500 Shore A LLC is the owner of the 5-story, 130-unit apartment building located at 7500 S. Shore, Chicago, IL 60649 (“the 7500 S Shore building”). 7500 Shore B LLC also had principal ownership interest of the 7500 S Shore building.

Trinity Flood is the registered managing member of 7500 Shore A LLC. On information and belief, Flood is the primary owner of the 7500 S. Shore building.

Strength in Management LLC is, upon information and belief, the property management company contracted by Flood and 7500 S Shore A LLC to maintain the 7500 S. Shore building.

Corey Oliver is both the property manager of the 7500 S Shore building and CEO of Strength in Management LLC.

7500 Shore A LLC, Trinity Flood, and Strength in Management LLC are collectively referred to in this charge as “7500 S. Shore building management.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the federal law enforcement agency that oversees operations by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The allegations set forth below are upon the Department’s information and belief:

In or around September 2025, 7500 S. Shore building management tipped federal officials, alleging that the 7500 S Shore building was inhabited by Venezuelans who were unauthorized occupants and had threatened other tenants.  As a result, on September 30, 2025, federal agents under the direction of DHS, ICE, and CBP (hereinafter referred to as “federal agents”) raided the 7500 S Shore building. 7500 S. Shore building management sought to intimidate and coerce the building’s Black and Hispanic tenants into leaving their apartment units, based on stereotypes about Venezuelan immigrants, effectively, constructively evicting them. In the middle of the night, armed federal agents in military fatigues entered nearly every one of the 130 units in the 5-story building. Federal agents forcibly removed Black and Hispanic tenants from their apartments, detained and separated tenants based on their race, ancestry, and national origin, destroyed their belongings, and rendered their residences uninhabitable, constructively evicting them, and causing them to become homeless.

Federal agents broke down doors, dragged tenants and their children outside and left them zip-tied for hours outside the building. Tenants’ requests to see warrants or attorneys were ignored. When tenants returned to the building, they found that their doors had been kicked down or ripped from the hinges and that their furniture and belongings had been removed, tossed, or damaged. Within hours after the raid, workers employed or contracted by 7500 S. Shore building management were tossing tenants’ belongings in the trash and clearing out units vacated by the raid.

7500 S. Shore building management unlawfully discriminated against their tenants when they refused to make apartment maintenance and repairs, as a form of a hostile housing environment, due to their tenants’ protected classes, and then tipped or otherwise informed federal officials, alleging that the Venezuelan tenants of the building were unauthorized occupants and had threatened other tenants.  The act of tipping and informing federal officials was based on race, ancestry, and national origin of Venezuelan tenants. 7500 S. Shore building management blamed Venezuelan tenants for their own (management’s) failure to provide needed locks and security service for the front building entrances, as well as other needed apartment maintenance and repairs, and perpetuated stereotypes about Venezuelan gang members to send a discriminatory stereotyped message that tenants and residents born outside of the United States were considered gang associates, even if they were law abiding. The tip allegation to federal officials was a pretext for discrimination against Venezuelan tenants who lived in the building and resulted in federal officials raiding the entire 130-unit building, terrorizing all tenants, knocking down doors, clearing units, and destroying tenants’ property.  7500 S. Shore building management unlawfully discriminated against their tenants when they refused to make a rental property available based on race, ancestry, and national origin and altered the terms, conditions, or privileges of a rental based on race, ancestry, and national origin.  All tenants of 7500 S. Shore, even those who were not Venezuelan, were predictably harmed by these discriminatory practices.

7500 S. Shore building management also aided and abetted federal agents’ unlawful actions by tipping, informing, and coordinating with federal agents to raid the 130-unit building and to engage in unlawful interference, coercion, or intimidation of its Black and Hispanic tenants in their exercise or enjoyment of fair housing rights, based on their race, ancestry, and national origin. The alleged unlawful interference, coercion, or intimidation, which 7500 S. Shore building management aided and abetted, includes breaking down doors, forcibly removing tenants (including U.S. citizens, veterans, and children) from their apartments and zip-tying them, detaining and separating tenants based on their race, ancestry, and national origin, destroying the furniture and belongings of tenants, and rendering their residences uninhabitable, constructively evicting them, and causing them to become homeless.  

It is the public policy of the State of Illinois to secure for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from discrimination based on race, ancestry, and national origin in real estate transactions and to promote the public health, welfare, and safety by protecting the interest of all people in Illinois in maintaining personal dignity, in realizing their full productive capacities, and in furthering their interests, rights and

privileges as citizens of this State. The alleged discriminatory practices and threats, coercion and intimidation based on race, ancestry, and national origin harm not only the tenants of 7500 S. Shore, but Black and Hispanic tenants throughout the South Side of Chicago and elsewhere in the state who face the threat of terrifying raids, detention and property destruction based on discriminatory animus.

September 30, 2025
 

None.

Sections 3-102(A), 3-102(B), and 6-101.5(B) of the Illinois Human Rights Act. 

Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to Section 1-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure [735 ILCS 5/1-109], the undersigned certifies that the statements set forth in this instrument are true and correct, except as to matters therein stated to be on information and belief and as to such matters the undersigned certifies as aforesaid that he or she verily believes the same to be true.

 James L. Bennett, Director           3/25/2026

NOTE:  IDHR WILL FURNISH A COPY OF THIS COMPLAINT TO THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION AGAINST WHOM IT IS FILED.