Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 21:33     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

I was at O’Hare in December and did not experience this. Was it pleasant? No. But no airport is.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 20:29     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:America doesn’t have mental health services. America has an affordable housing. This is what happens when you have these problems.


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…


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
Post 02/15/2023 20:27     Subject: Re:O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Anonymous wrote:Where should they go?


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
Post 02/15/2023 20:14     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Just put them on a mostly empty red eye to Maui. Let HI deal with it
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 20:13     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:America doesn’t have mental health services. America has an affordable housing. This is what happens when you have these problems.


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…


+1
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 19:44     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Anonymous wrote:America doesn’t have mental health services. America has an affordable housing. This is what happens when you have these problems.


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
Post 02/15/2023 19:38     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

America doesn’t have mental health services. America has an affordable housing. This is what happens when you have these problems.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 19:33     Subject: Re:O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

If Chicago elects Lightfoot again, this problem will get 10x worse on top of the crime, murder, drug problem the city is facing…
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 19:03     Subject: Re:O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Where should they go?


Social services lines for a job. Record UE and you're telling me they can't do squat?


A lot of chronic homeless are mentally ill.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 19:02     Subject: Re:O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Anonymous wrote:Where should they go?


Social services lines for a job. Record UE and you're telling me they can't do squat?
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 18:57     Subject: Re:O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

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
Post 02/15/2023 18:52     Subject: Re:O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Where should they go?
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 18:42     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

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
Post 02/15/2023 18:33     Subject: Re:O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

Nice they are harassing the cleaning people and they don’t feel safe there anymore. Nice Chicago..
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 18:28     Subject: O’hare Airport Homeless Problem

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/