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Article: Father John's O'Hare flock a `special' kind of homeless
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 7, 1989
- Author:
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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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