Like so much else in the Trump era, declaring bankruptcy has come to seem like business as usual. After all, Trump’s companies have done it numerous times.

 So a tiff over Web design brings elephant and flea jokes to mind.



 According to the bankruptcy documents, Lillstreet contracted in 2015 with Trilogy Interactive, a national firm with a Ravenswood office, to redevelop its website. The cost was to be no more than $137,050 and work was to be completed by September 5, 2015. By January 15, 2016, Lillstreet had paid Trilogy a total of $110,746, including a retainer fee. Then, according to the documents, “[a] dispute arose between the parties and Trilogy did not complete the new website.” Lillstreet officials declined to comment on the nature of the dispute.



 “We’re a third place in the lives of a lot of people,” he added. “There’s home, there’s work, and there’s the community at Lillstreet.”