Chicago plays ‘Hide the Homeless’

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.

“This is really a part of our unsheltered strategy,” the commissioner for the city’s Department of Family and Support Services said. “Our goal is to be thoughtful, be trauma-informed, and help people along their journey.”

That is, as long as Chicago is helping them along their journey to somewhere away from all those media cameras that would remind the country just how poorly the city is run. Wouldn’t want everyone to see what Chicago looks like normally, now would we?

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This is normal for the Democratic Party, though. Los Angeles leadership is the best at this game, having played it for the Super Bowl and the Oscars. Sacramento, the capital city of California, is also well-versed. Now, Chicago gets to try and put its name on the leaderboard, showing Democratic leaders in other cities just how good the Windy City is at sweeping away homeless people for cameras.

There is nothing to worry about, though. The encampment will probably be brought back at some point after the national attention leaves. After all, like most big-city Democrats, Chicago leaders think that all the normal residents should have to deal with homeless encampments on their streets and sidewalks, just not the elites that arrive for events such as the DNC.