WEC 98C-3 LLC v. Saks Incorporated

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION WEC 98C-3 LLC, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) 4 STRATFORD SQUARE MALL ) HOLDINGS, ) ) Plaintiff-Intervenor, ) ) No. 20 C 4356 v. ) ) Judge John Z. Lee SAKS, INC., ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Defendant Saks Inc. (“Saks”) has been the guarantor to a lease agreement (“the Lease”) between a tenant, Carson Department Stores (“CPS”), and its landlord, Plaintiff WEC 98C-3 (“WEC”), since 1998. When CPS filed for bankruptcy in 2018 and stopped making payments on the Lease, Saks refused to make CPS’s…