O’hare Airport Homeless Problem
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Anonymous
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I flew to Chicago last month and noticed lots of homeless people camped out at the airport. I counted maybe 25-30. Smelled like urine and trash everywhere. I did not feel comfortable using the bathrooms near where they were camped out not far from baggage claim.
I would be scared for my kids safety if they were with me as many of these people may be mentally ill! Why is this allowed at an airport. It is a safety issue and completely something you should see maybe in the third world. Then I see this article from last week. Will also if this airport if I can in the future. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/homeless-community-ohare-international-airport/ |
Anonymous
| Nice they are harassing the cleaning people and they don’t feel safe there anymore. Nice Chicago.. |
Anonymous
| Yes, it’s very real. I ordered food for my child at McDonald’s kiosk in terminal 5 international, the exit, and a man came in between me and my daughter. Got in my face. Had to pick her up immediately and get away. No police in sight, everyone busy with their own distractions. People do indeed live in the terminal. |
Anonymous
| Where should they go? |
Anonymous
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Not the airport…. No excuse for travelers not to feel safe, esp if traveling with kids…. No Excuse…
The mayor needs to figure this out asap. I would not send my kids to Chicago for college if they had to travel through that crap every time the flew out and back to Chicago… And imagine a company based in Chicago looking for investors. They fly into O’hare from Japan for example and see this filth. What has this country come to and Chicago. |
Anonymous
Social services lines for a job. Record UE and you're telling me they can't do squat? |
Anonymous
A lot of chronic homeless are mentally ill. |
Anonymous
| If Chicago elects Lightfoot again, this problem will get 10x worse on top of the crime, murder, drug problem the city is facing… |
Anonymous
| America doesn’t have mental health services. America has an affordable housing. This is what happens when you have these problems. |
Anonymous
Perhaps the answer is to hospitalize the mentally ill like we used to and separate them from society. I can’t think we have enough money and resources to deal with all the people that need the services and many of them do not want the services even if available. The only way to mandate they get help is to commit them. Otherwise we will have thousands of people in every city homeless, mentally ill, using drugs and committing crime and endangering other people… |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Just put them on a mostly empty red eye to Maui. Let HI deal with it |
Anonymous
The right wing keeps sending millions and millions of dollars to grifters like Joel Osteen and Donald Trump, so let them open their doors and take the homeless in. |
Anonymous
Between 70 and 80 percent of the chronically homeless have serious mental health issues and/or substance abuse problems. They need to be in a place where they are in supervised living conditions, receiving treatment. |
Anonymous
| I was at O’Hare in December and did not experience this. Was it pleasant? No. But no airport is. |