More than $787,000 in separation payments were awarded to nine senior Chicago Housing Authority officials over the past five years, including some who left under questionable circumstances ...

A Tribune analysis of CHA records show that each of the nine received at least two months of compensation at the salary level they had on their last day of work.

Seniors, some with disabilities, are not able to use the elevators in the Chicago Housing Authority building they ... such as working elevators. "It's a senior building," he said.