In the beloved 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the “Sausage King of Chicago” is the title given to a mythical man named Abe Froman. Bueller, a mischievous high school senior skipping school, borrows Froman’s identity to get seated at a ritzy restaurant with his girlfriend and a buddy.

In real life, The Sausage King of Chicago is the name of a company that owns Indian Trails Apartments, a 180-unit subsidized housing development in West Pullman on the Far South Side. The development, once considered a good place to live by longtime residents, is now in flux as it is poised to change hands after years of neglect.

The story of Indian Trails and the real Sausage King of Chicago is about what happened when a corporation led by a pair of out-of-town real estate investors with a penchant f

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