CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) — A woman alleges the Chicago Housing Authority failed to provide reasonable accommodations for her wheelchair-bound daughter.
Lynya Cooper, individually and as administrator of the Estate of Trebora Talbert, filed a complaint July 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Chicago Housing Authority alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other claims.
According to Cooper's complaint, she lived in a second-floor unit of a Chicago Housing Authority's public housing building in Chicago with her daughter, who suffered from a neurological disease and died on Sept. 3, 2022. She claims that her daughter's medical condition prevented her from being able to walk and required numerous pieces of medical equipment, including a wheelchair that would not fit through the door of their unit.
She further claims they could not use the stairs to the apartment and had to use a private ambulance company just to get her daughter to and from her medical and therapy appointments. Cooper alleges that despite notifying the Chicago Housing Authority about needing special accommodations for her daughter, it did not provide her with adequate housing with enough room for her daughter to move around in her wheelchair or enough room for her medical equipment.
Copper seeks monetary relief, interest, trial by jury and all other just relief. She is represented by Robert Robertson and Marko Duric of Robertson Duric in Chicago.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois - Eastern Division case number 1:23-CV-04891