{"id":792097,"date":"2019-01-16T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780053"},"modified":"2019-01-16T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:23:51","slug":"r-kellys-chicago-warehouse-visited-by-city-inspectors-over-code-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/r-kellys-chicago-warehouse-visited-by-city-inspectors-over-code-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly\u2019s Chicago Warehouse Visited by City Inspectors Over Code Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago Department of Buildings visited R. Kelly<\/a>\u2019s leased Chicago warehouse Wednesday, days after a judge ruled that city inspectors be allowed to enter the premises<\/a> to investigate potential building code violations.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday around noon CST, inspectors gained entry to Kelly\u2019s warehouse \u2013 an entire building he leases in Chicago\u2019s Near West Side \u2013 to see whether the address was illegally housing a recording studio as well as a residence. Inspectors spent an hour inside the warehouse, the Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the building was zoned for industrial use only, both the studio and the residence would be in violation of building code; the docuseries Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> also alleged that the singer has numerous women living on the property.<\/p>\n

Prior to the inspectors\u2019 scheduled noon inspection, CBS 2 Chicago reporter Mike Puccinelli tweeted that a man was seen exiting Kelly\u2019s warehouse early Wednesday morning with boxes and a computer hard drive in tow. It\u2019s unclear what the man\u2019s connection is to Kelly.<\/p>\n

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Man spotted bringing computer tower and boxes out of R. Kelly\u2019s west side recording studio before dawn Wednesday. Would not say if he was the landlord or an employee of the embattled singer. @cbschicago<\/a> #RKelly<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/drh1vC6bPZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mike Puccinelli (@MPuccinelliCBS2) January 16, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Additionally, Kelly owes over $166,000 in back rent on the property to the building\u2019s landlords, Midwest Commercial Funding; the Associated Press<\/em> reported<\/a> that Kelly must pay back the debt by January 21st or risk facing eviction on the property. Kelly currently has eight years left on his 10-year lease.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> reports that Midwest Commercial Funding authorized Kelly to build out the recording studio and the second-floor residence in the warehouse, but that still violated building code.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s attorney, Melvin Sims, declined to comment on today\u2019s inspection to Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At a January 11th court hearing, the Department of Buildings argued that \u201cthere were some allegations that there were some illegal parties\u201d in the warehouse, adding that inspectors saw some windows \u201csealed up,\u201d the Chicago Tribune<\/em> reported Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in New York City on Wednesday, activist groups congregated outside of Sony\u2019s headquarters<\/a> to demand that RCA, a subsidiary of Sony, drop Kelly off its roster.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Department of Buildings visited R. Kelly\u2019s leased Chicago warehouse Wednesday, days after a judge ruled that city inspectors be allowed to enter the premises to investigate potential building code violations. On Wednesday around noon CST, inspectors gained entry to Kelly\u2019s warehouse \u2013 an entire building he leases in Chicago\u2019s Near West Side \u2013 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:09:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}