Clouted owner of senior home fined $1,500 after 3 residents died during hot spell as heat was left running inside their building

Three women died during a May heat spell at the James Sneider Apartments in Rogers Park. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

The clout-heavy owner of a Rogers Park senior home was fined just $1,500 after three women died during a heat spell last spring — deaths that autopsies link directly to soaring temperatures in the building where the heating system was left running.

The women — Janice Reed, 68, Gwendolyn Osborne, 72, and Delores McNeely, 76 — were discovered throughout the day on May 14 at the James Sneider Apartments as temperatures inside the building rose into the low 90s.