Images of homeless seeking refuge at O’Hare International Airport have sparked a renewed discourse online.
On Wednesday, “O’Hare Airport,” began trending on Twitter due to images shared by recent travelers.
One Twitter user posted an image of what appeared to be a cluster of seven homeless people who had sprawled out near Terminal 1 baggage claim, writing “Chicago needs better leadership.”
Another tweet from earlier this month captured several images of homeless sleeping in Terminal 2.
“Please clean up this city!” the user tweeted at Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. “This is the current state of O’hare airport, homeless everywhere, sleeping all over terminal 2 and getting in peoples faces yelling. This is the first impression people get when they land in this city.”
Another user chimed in, saying “I flew back to O’Hare, Terminal 3, last week. I had never seen such a homeless problem, in baggage, in the 50 years I have lived in Cook Co. It’s not even that cold out! Also, aggresively hit-up with ‘ya need a ride?’ in baggage. It was dystopian.”
Others came to the defense of the homeless, saying “They’re human beings who need help, not a mess that needs cleaning up.”
“Don’t hate on the homeless, hate on the government that REFUSES to address this issue!” another said.
Vonkisha Chatman, an overnight custodian at the airport, described the situation as “out of control,” to CBS News earlier this month. “None of us feel safe,” she said.
‘Dystopian’ homeless encampments overtake Chicago’s O’Hare Airport https://t.co/YKh0wt8vsT pic.twitter.com/OR2v999wh2
— New York Post (@nypost) February 15, 2023
“Homeless encampments have sprung up inside crime-riddled Chicago's O'Hare International Airport terminal leaving some concerned for their safety as images of people sleeping in filthy makeshift shelters have emerged.” https://t.co/Puhcgmq6oq
— Ford O'Connell (@FordOConnell) February 16, 2023
The number of homeless people is increasing every year, says Jessica Dubuar of Haymarket Center, which serves Chicago’s homeless by offering aid for substance use disorders.
Haymarket reported 618 new homeless people at O’Hare in 2022 – up 53% from 2021, when they saw 431.
When asked why people were sleeping at O’Hare instead of shelters across the city, Dubuar responded, “They’re full. The shelters are full.”
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And we the U.S. citizens can thank this treasonous, destructive, unethical, lying, socialist Democrat Party for encouraging, supporting and protecting these imported illegal immigrants at the expense of the taxpayers.
The Democrats long-term goal is to seal their permanence in power by giving voting rights to illegal aliens, who drown the impact of legacy GOP voters, and who will be a permanent underclass voter base for the Democrats.
The Democrats’ plan has successfully been implemented in states such as New York and California, so all they need now is to capture a few more states in order to have total control. This insanity must to stop.
This Socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
I used to work at Ohare Airport in the 70s and 80s and all you had to worry about getting molested by in the terminals were the Moonies panhandling for a donation, best handled by the Robert stack movie “AIrport “solution of decking them before they could get too close. The faces have changed, but the CHicago chaos remains the same,,,,,as well as the same Stack’d solution. They never should have bult the train from downtown Chicago, 15 miles tothe Ohar eAirport terminals. Just created more opportunity for more Democrat Chicago community Organiser winters of discontent.
I wonder, how things like this, is impacting the TOURISM Industry there!
Make Biden and Lightfoot Jobless, goodbye Homeless. Not rocket science. When you add 2-3 million unskilled people whose first act is to break our laws in entering the country, they will not hesitate to do whatever is illegal afterwards, seeing no legal consequences for breaking the first law in illegal immigration, which breaks the economic backs of a COVID recovering country whose economy is now short 2-3 million homes, apartments, and food to feed the incoming criminals, driving up the cost of our more scarcely produced food, and destroyed housing markets due to the Biden inflated Real estate loan interest rates being paid, limiting anyone the ability to afford a mortgage,,,,But I guarantee you the Biden crime family will leave office with more homes, much richer for the planned social chaos, with the dwindling class of honest American taxpayers, fleeced and shorn of most of what they are now limited by Biden in ability to produce.
EVEN if they get rid of her, i DON’T see this homeless problem being resolved any decade soon..
ITS THE WHOLE system, that coddles them, that needs to get gutted.
Chi town gets what it votes for. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving town.