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Alison Victoria returns to HGTV Monday with the second season premiere of "Rock the Block." But she’s still facing a number of legal troubles in Chicago.

In Windy City Rehab season two, viewers got a front seat as designer Alison Victoria decided to officially dissolve her business partnership with contractor Donovan Eckhardt. It was an intensely dramatic season filled with a lot of pain for Victoria — so much so, that she says she cant watch the episodes over. However, the Chicago native is now looking ahead to better things post-Eckhardt—and HGTV isnt missing a second of it. The network has ordered nine additional one-hour episodes for Wi...

HGTV HGTV has ordered nine additional one-hour episodes of the show. The new episodes are slated to air in late 2021, showrunners announced Monday. The show has attracted more than 20 million viewers since its season two premiere in November and ranked as the number one cable program among key viewer demographic groups in its Tuesday timeslot, according to HGTV. Season two included five episodes. The new episodes are being billed as the latter half of season two. The show has veered from home-f...

HGTV has ordered nine hourlong episodes of “Windy City Rehab” slated to premiere later this year, with network representatives calling the show a “ratings powerhouse” in their Monday announcement.

Windy City Rehab's Alison Victoria might never see Season 2 of her hit show.

A Bucktown property that was featured on “Windy City Rehab,” but did not end up being renovated on the HGTV show, sold last week after nearly a year on the market, a major price cut and a tree dispute.

Windy City Rehabs Donovan Eckhardt files a $2.2 million defamation suit accusing the home renovation show of portraying him as the villain The former Windy City Rehab star Donovan Eckhardt has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his former series for painting him as the shows villain  The reality star is asking for $2.2 million for defamation and emotional distress in the lawsuit filed in Illinoiss Cook County Circuit Court on Monday  In his filing, Eckhardt claims that he was set up ...

CinemaBlend Fans of HGTVs supremely popular home renovation series Windy City Rehab have been inundated with news about the legal troubles that stars Alison Victoria and Donovan Eckhardt have been going through because of the builds they created for the show. Its early 2019 premiere quickly led to numerous reports of stop work orders, anger from neighbors, and a long string of lawsuits which have yet to be completely resolved. Now, Eckhardt has filed a lawsuit of his own, but where does he sta...

Eckhardt alleges that the show falsely portrays him as a "villain" who stole money from projects. Read the 23-page lawsuit, which was filed in Cook County Circuit Court, below.

The suit states that Chicago contractor Donovan Eckhardt "has suffered from depression, sleeplessness, loss of appetite" and has undergone counseling for the "embarrassing, traumatic and humiliating" experience.