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EDITORIAL: How does someone live at the airport undetected for nearly 3 months?
Chicago Tribune
Questions abound in the bizarre tale surrounding Aditya Singh, the man found living at O’Hare International Airport for nearly three months. The biggest is the most obvious: How could security personnel at O’Hare, one of the world’s busiest airports, fail to notice someone living in a secured area, turning it into his own Airbnb?
The Jan. 16 arrest of Singh, 36, evokes comparisons to “The Terminal,” the 2004 movie in which Tom Hanks plays an international traveler with an invalid passport who lives at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport for nine months. Singh’s case is quite different. In the movie, authorities allowed Hanks’ character to live at the airport while they figured out what to do with him. Singh is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport, along with misdemeanor theft.
Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza (10th) speaks at rally in 2019. She joined nearly all members of the Chicago City Council on Wednesday in voting to eliminate exceptions written into the Welcoming City ordinance that had allowed police to help federal immigration officers in some situations.
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For undocumented immigrants living in fear of deportation, Chicago became a more “welcoming city” on the day former President Donald Trump left office.
Wednesday was another red-letter day.
By a vote of 41 to 8, the Chicago City Council eliminated “carve-outs” in the Welcoming City ordinance that had allowed Chicago police officers to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement if targeted individuals are: in the city’s gang database; have pending felony prosecutions or prior felony convictions; or are the subject of an outstanding criminal warrant.
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Police make arrest in robbery of 7-Eleven store in Mount Greenwood. (Shutterstock)
CHICAGO A 27-year-old man is accused of robbing a convenience store in the early morning hours of Jan. 14 in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood. Omar Anderson, had been serving a 12-year sentence for a 2013-armed robbery conviction. He was released on parole in March 2020 from the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Police said Anderson robbed the 7-Eleven, 3152 W. 111th St., around 5:30 a.m. Jan.14. Anderson was taken into custody following a short pursuit. He was charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated assault and a parole violation, all felonies. Anderson is currently being held on $150,000 bail at Cook County Jail.