Unsafe Projects Approved: Chicago Buildings Department Under Scrutiny After Audit

DEBARYLIFE – In 2022, a watchdog organization for the city discovered that the Chicago Department of Buildings was falling behind on required inspections to guarantee safe buildings.

Two years later, the Office of the Inspector General reports that no changes have been taken by the department to stop potentially dangerous construction, according to a follow-up audit.

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42 structures were permitted to be built between 2017 and 2019, the audit discovered, even though they only passed 11 of the 398 mandatory total safety checks.

The Buildings Department reports that it may take an additional two years to finish the fix it is working on.

Alex Nitkin, a government finance and accountability reporter with Illinois Answers Project, visited ABC7 to discuss the conclusions of the first audit.