‘We’re on the front lines of gentrification’: Beverly tenants protest mass eviction in six-building complex

When Gordon Dymowski moved into his mother’s apartment in Beverly in 2016 to tend to her kidney and heart issues, he found solace in her close-knit community alongside the daily trials of caregiving.

After she died in April 2022, Dymowski hoped to stay in Beverly indefinitely, mourning with his neighbors.

“It’s a very beautiful area,” Dymowski, 55, told the Chicago Tribune. “As I’ve lived here, even though I was rather isolated in caring for Mom, I got to meet my neighbors going around. And they’re wonderful people. So until the notices came, I had no immediate plans to move.”

Instead, he opened his door on May 25 to find a lease nonrenewal notice taped outside. Levav Properties — a Chicago-based property management company which recently acquired the building — planned to oust Dymowski by the 30th of September.

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