Chicago plays ‘Hide the Homeless’

Published July 19, 2024 2:00am ET



It’s time to play “Hide the Homeless,” the Democratic Party game where you take homeless people you have allowed to camp in public and shove them into a closet when a major event comes to town.

This time the player is Chicago, which is in the process of clearing out a homeless encampment near where the Democratic National Convention will be held next month. The homeless people at the encampment are being whisked away to a former restaurant converted into a homeless shelter so that they are not an eyesore when the eyes of the country turn toward the Democratic Party’s presidential convention.

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