![]() When he died, he left it to his son who had serious health issues and could not maintain the home, Davis said.ĭavis, 41, wanted to keep the house from becoming another vacant lot on the South Side. It was early 2020 when Jay Davis realized his family was going to lose his childhood home, a red brick house in Rosemoor on the South Side of Chicago that had been in his family for generations.ĭavis’ great-uncle had been living there, and as his dementia worsened the one-story house began to deteriorate. This story was produced with South Side Weekly, a nonprofit newsroom serving the South Side of Chicago. Credit: Photo on left provided by Jay Davis photo on right by Marc Monaghan, for South Side Weekly and Illinois Answers Project Previously, the home’s back porch was caved in, most of the windows were busted or boarded up, and the front had serious fire damage. ![]() ![]() A before-and-after image shows how community receiver Jay Davis renovated an Englewood house that he bought in 2021 from the Cook County Land Bank Authority through a program called Chicago Neighborhood Rebuild. ![]()
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