Article: Father John's O'Hare flock a `special' kind of homeless

Some 200 Chicagoans sleep each night in chairs along the echoing concourses of O'Hare Airport, but they have little in common other than where they live.

"We have every kind of person staying here that you can imagine," says the Rev. John A. Jamnicky, Roman Catholic chaplain at the airport for the last eight years and the man who cares most about O'Hare's "live-ins." He also knows more about them than they know about one another.

People who must wait for the rest of us to drop crumbs before they have anything to eat don't confide easily in strangers. They have been approached before, heard promises and been disappointed if not further victimized.

Having found a spot as livable as ...

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