Exploring an Abandoned Neighborhood in Bensenville, IL - 109 Abandoned houses!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2021
- Disclaimer - We had permission to venture inside this neighborhood, nothing was taken or destroyed. We only want to show what happens when a company buys a neighborhood. This documentary is not against or for Amazon or anyone else. All doors were open prior to when we got there.
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I work for a utility company and had to remove the telephone poles and cables in that very neighborhood. There was one holdout still there all homes demolished , rumor has it they were paid a seven figure buy out to leave. No one has to sell off to private corporations, if they don’t get 100% compliance by the homeowners they can’t build. People don’t realize that. Emanate domain does not pertain to private companies so if u ever have this situation hold out for big money
So the holdout eventually sold?
So the holdout eventually sold?
Actually, private companies have been using eminent domain recently...
@@springhollerfarm8668 and how are they doing that ? Did they have the laws re written ? The only way private companies can use eminent domain is if they are being contracted by the government to do a project that eminent domain pertains to. Every investment company we deal with that are buying up homes to build factories have told me that without 100% compliance the project is shut down. They make false claims and threats to scare people into selling , or they tear up the roads and create huge dust storms all day to try to bully the 😊holdouts , but if they hold out the project has to be re designed to incorporate a home and if that home is in a prime location nothing they can do about it.
@@MultiMuskymankinda like the house that's in the Elmhurst hospital parking lot
It’s crazy there are politicians saying that there aren’t enough homes for people to buy and these companies are buying whole neighborhoods to build a warehouse. This is so sad.
Well, they're right. There isn't enough skilled laborers to outweigh the population growth as a whole coupled with single rates & living in separate houses increasing.
I’m curious if Amazon is going to actually demolish anything here, especially for a new warehouse. Something similar happened in my state of Mississippi. I think it was Amazon who bought up all this property, which contained some houses, to build a facility that never got built. Like a year later, people started seeing construction crews going in and refurbishing the homes, but then nothing happened with them, they just sat, remodeled and empty. There’s this whole somewhat conspiracy theory going round that these companies are buying up lots like this, claiming to be building something, but never do, and the reason being they’re looking into providing homes to employees in order to trap them into some modern form of serfdom. I don’t personally subscribe to the theory, but I can definitely see how it gets started.
@@ryanmac3134 🏆🏆🏆HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD!!! Also, everything is going into “LONG TERM RENTAL COMMUNITIES”. They buy up and build up “Rental Only” housing and drive up the rental cost and drive out the less fortunate… RED LINING AND GENTRIFICATION AT I’S FINES!
@@ryanmac3134 : You might be on to something or it could be like my state. Government and corporations are buying real estate in several neighborhoods to gain the upper hand. It's becoming a monopoly. Some of the theories are they're buying it for the land so they can control farming and what agriculture we'll be offered or available to us lower life forms. He who controls the food rules the world.
Our government is bringing people into the country by the millions. Our jobs and our houses are going to people who came here illegally.
Imagine a corporation erasing 20-30 year's of your memories. That's what this feels like. It's heartbreaking and sad. Some people have to much power.
Gosh! I feel like there is so much more to this crazy story!
A "corporation" means a group that gives itself the right to transport and own rights
over the symbolic "Dead" under early 17th century British Maritime law
@@TheGingerThatiAm : So do I. It definitely made me think and put things in perspective. 20-30 year's in one home in one neighborhood. Everyone knew Everyone. They spent holidays with each other. Grew up together. Where did everyone move to. Do they stay in touch? There's so many questions I have.
Especially the Democrats
@@virginiaeckley3047 : LOL. You had to go there. Damn! Yes your right. This administration has definitely put another nail in the coffin. Build back a better America means one must tear it down before it can be rebuilt. They're doing a superb job at doing so that's for sure.
The house you go into in the beginning was my grandfather’s. Lived there 25 years. Crazy to see the state it was in when this was filmed.
Where this place located, it a shame
Why didn't the family inherit it?
I hope not the one the murder happened
@@High12083 unincorporated Bensenville.
Why were they abandoned?
This documentary was both enlightening and terrifying. thank you for exposing these issues because I was not aware 😢
Welcome to corporate America 😮
@@legitcreepin what i would do is go to the nearest homeless camp, tell them their are a hundred abandoned houses for the taking. Get them there and give them a copy of squatters rights for the area lol. And record what happens next for RUclips
@@mrdashin8323 that’s… fucking genius….
@@mrdashin8323 You are definitely onto sumn!!
There are a lot of people in Los Angeles that won't go to dodger stadium because of what they did to the Hispanic families in that area before the. Stadium was built.
You are doing very important work. Getting the truth out. So heartbreaking and infuriating. Much respect to you. Thank you.
Get what truth out there? He showed the empty houses as people sold them and moved out.
My friend lived in this neighborhood. She had a going away party. It was very eeerrrrieee because almost every home was abandoned. It was very sad!!
I kept hearing the term, "forced out". That literally legally can not happen from a corporation. If just one family said no, there is nothing the company can do. They can build around them. But they can not "force" them to leave. Or, they can just offer so much money, that it would be dumb to say no.
The corporations bet on people not being aware of their rights, and their willingness to comply with any ‘authority’ under enough pressure. Consider the results of the Milgram Experiment.
I think that's the case
Amazon offered so much money that they took it... and ran
I'm really wondering how squatters are not in any of these beautiful houses after that length of time abandoned. It's really sad and frustrating to see happen to these people 😔
Probably too rural.
Yeah it's honestly insane, this is a Chicago suburb even. Squatters don't stay in places unless it affects other people though so that's why.
@@pampire13 Bensenville borders O'Hare International Airport which is literally Chicago. Not even slightly rural.
Treat every gun as a loaded gun. NEVER point a gun at anyone unless you intend to shoot them.
For real. This dude finds a gun and 1st thing to go through his mind is point it at his buddy as he cocks back the hammer smh 🤦♂️
Lol came in here to look for this comment. As a gun owner, that had me on edge!
I believe it was a cap gun. It sounded like cheap metal / plastic.
@@sophiasokolowski1982 Doesn't matter. Ya don't get sloppy with guns.
THIS
Some absolutely beautiful homes.. this is a very sad story
I grew up there. My dad built 2 houses in the neighborhood. I broke out my front teeth in 6th grade on the driveway where you talked to the last holdout. Sad to see what happened.
BTW, it was Mohawk Terrace. Mohawk Manor was a little farther south.
Correct. Thanks for the story!
😥💞 mohawk terrace. Rip. Loved there until the last day in june before Amazon took possession. I hope all the displaced families found never forever homes!
I’m trying to remember where this is at. I grew up around 83 close to Fenton and for some reason I cannot think of where these houses are.
@@Benito722 southwest corner of Devon and Route 83
I thought so! He said Mohawk Manor, which I grew up in, My childhood home was on Pine Ave..
Mohawk Terrace was north up on 83..Several of my childhood friends lived there, the bus would pick them up first then come to Mohawk Manor for us. What a shame, I didn't know Amazon bought it, I thought it was O'Hara Airport expanding..
This is a zoning issue. Re zoning of residential neighborhoods to industrial or commercial zones shouldn’t be allowed. In my state rezoning takes decades to do if if at all. We live in Hawaii and it took 10 yrs for the developer to get the permits just to build our building.
I grew up a couple blocks away in another unincorporated area. Same thing is going on. These companies didn't force anyone to do anything. When you see one of the country's biggest industrial parks expanding indefinitely, the neighborhoods become out of place and undesirable locations to live in when damn near everything around you is zoned industrial. Sure, growing up there was nice with open fields and farm houses here and there and peace and quiet, but now all you hear is airplanes, traffic and trucks docking all the time. The reason people left is because they were offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to sell their properties sight unseen for 3-4x the amount you ever could in this lifetime. With that money, you could easily pay off any remaining mortgage and go buy maybe 2 more homes lol. Of course there are families that don't want to be part of the situation... the ones who have been there for 30+ years and never even considered another home after this one. This was their forever home. At the same time, the people who don't want anything to do with it hold out the longest and get the most money, sooooooo yeah lol. Nobody was truly forced out. All the shit that you see left behind is garbage because guess what? They're going to go buy a new house with new things and start over. It's the best "fuck you" to the developers who have to demolish and clean that shit up. Not everything is black and white or appears as it is. Nice video though 👌
Thanks. Clearly I'm spinning this a certain way haha.
Such a nice neighborhood. So sad.
Last hold out is usually threatened with imminent domain. “Sell or else”
Not how it works… a lot of people didn’t get what their property is worth. N the hood outs get less cause their living in a abondoned neighborhood. The ones that make money are the ones that stick together and sell together
@@aicc1728 exactly. My friend’s grandparents lost their home to Target. They were literally pushed out. I don’t think their tears were happy ones as they drove away from their home of 50 years. It destroyed them.
Wow I truly didn't realize that this is how companies like Amazon got their properties. This is horrible. Like damn why not just acquire land no one is living on? That's so sad for those people who lived snd grew up there.
I would prefer they don’t even buy land that is in nature. They can stay in the big cities.. low population areas are the best to live in imo. You need nature man..
@Kino_pup there's plenty of land. But why steal people's homes?
@@MichaelDiSalvoSATandACTTutorSteal? The houses were bought for fair market value.
@@Kino_pup its likely going to be a distribution hub of some sort, looking for a lot more area for vehicles, and in the city the traffic is brutal. you'd want to have a good location with quick access to a lot of areas that might be struggling. they do the math, and it was worth it for them to pay these people and knock down the houses, vs somewhere else.
@@Kino_pup yes but we dont need to loose a chunk of architecture and city history every time corporate needs to make more profits. amazon is killing cities in many ways
This just breaks my heart! Such a nice place that was well loved just to get demolished for something we don’t need!
Yes, history demolished.
I really enjoy these videos! I’ve seen a lot of channels explore Russia’s abandoned towns, but it’s almost surreal when you see it in your own country. Keep up the work!
Thanks man!
@@StringerMedia Of course bro!
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@@SouthernPirateOutdoors very interesting. Actually gave me chills down my spine. I truly believe we are just guinea pigs in whatever experiment either the government or aliens are working on.
We have an abandoned neighborhood in Connecticut.
This gave me chills. A pit sinking feeling in my stomach. I'm completely devastated for all these families that are now displaced. You're basically a used baby diaper, they can dispose of you that quickly with no thought, care or concern. Big conglomerate comes in and wipes your community off the planet and throws some chump change your way and say get out. It's all legal. You never really own tour own home when they can come on a whim and take it away 💔 Side Note: The Ink Spots, very nice at the closing of this.
In the end though they willingly sold. Even big corporations can't just take your house. If you don't want yo sell then don't
Is the abandoned houses still there?
They sold for 3x their value in a neighborhood right next to ohare plane fumes. They probably are better off.
@ClauseNight not really. It was fear and pressure. If you're the last one you might get nothing.
@@_sam_mccormack_no it's logistics warehouses
Now this is one place I would LOVE to see a bunch of squatters move into the empty houses and be as difficult as possible for Amazon.
Don’t kill yourself, they get them out in a minute. They wouldn’t have to go through all the courts.
It’s sad that nothing is the same and I think it’s awful to be forced out of your house for dumb Amazon
Do you buy from amazon.
It's not just Amazon. Bensenville land is worth money to other companies besides Amazon because it's right next to the airport therefore freight forwarders need warehouses close to the airlines to store thier shipments. My job is in a neighborhood right next to Bensenville. Soon they will come after the surrounding neighborhoods too.
The government doesn't govern us anymore. Corporations govern us. They simply have too much goddamn power.
I had no idea this was occurring in the US! This is so devastating and infuriating.
This is happening ALL OVER America for variety of reasons. Where & why do they all go?
It’s been occurring for 100 years or more
The United Nations wants no one to own a house by 2030. They want everyone to live in an apartment. That’s why this admin is trying to completely break the USA. That’s why they give money to Ukraine. They get kick backs. People like Bill Gates. They’re trying to make it too expensive to own a home.
The companies are the government. The communist take over cause no one is fighting back.
This was happening in the 60's in California. My Aunt and uncle lost their property the same way.
It’s such a shame that this happened to all of those good people.
They got paid
@@tankerman7666 yes they got paid however you realize the interest rates on buying a new home at the moment? Not to mention any memories that happened in that home. The whole thing is sick
@@joejonas3684 agreed
Actually it's nice to see it happening to the well off instead of the lower class for once maybe they might be more sympathetic to thoes who can't get up once kicked out, these people won't be on the street, but hey life ain't fair
To do what Amazon did requires a few things. 1. An eminent domain court ruling essentially requiring the property owners to sell at a given percentage of their homes values. (Usually higher than market.) 2. A boatload of cash, which is what they did. 3x the property values sounds fair considering some of these homes look easily in the $500k range.
The biggest part of Bensenville was taken over by the City of Chicago to expand O'Hare about 10 years ago.
My uncle owned a big honky tonk bar called Nashville North in Bensenville for forty plus years. It's under the airport expansion now.
The infamous Chicago Outfit murders of Tony and Michael Spilotro took place in Bensenville in the basement of a house owned by Louie "The Mooch" Eboli.
Not actually the biggest part of B'ville but I loved Nashville North.
Nashville North was a great place.
ADVENTURE LAND was there 50 years ago then WOODFIELD MALL north of there, we had 53 DRIVE IN north of the mall the rest was farms, woods, and new subdivisions and roads nobody knew and people wood be lost with only the first people living there knowing where they were going it was beautiful back then that whole area with Barrington north of all of the other places Barrington back then looked like heaven.
Nashville North was a cool place.
They did the same thing 10-15 years ago for the airport, once they get a certain percentage of volunteers to sell they can simply tell the rest this is what your getting and tough luck after that. I remember a bar owner I knew wanted a million for his place, and they gave him much much less than they offered multiple times because they got what they needed to take the rest. An x of mine works at the village and she always talked about how corrupt the city was, so I'm not surprised by this.....
Ok WHY AND WHO ordered the to evacuate?
In a situation like this you get a handful of trusted neighbors and all sell together for 3-4 times their worth. In a situation like this the developer will pay the most for big chunks in the beginning to get a foothold. If you send a good negotiator to sell 5 homes or more , the developer will jump at it. Tbh if the entire neighborhood had teamed up and paid for a negotiator out of pocket to get the best deal possible , they probably could have sold for 2x what every home is worth at least and nobody would have gotten fucked over.
It's all kept hush hush. I watched a Documentary about the formation of the national parks, Yellowstone and Grand Teton specifically. John D. Rockefeller made big donations to the process. He bought up the land between Yellowstone and GT to connect them. But, to do so he set up over one hundred dummy corps. so not to alert land owners who was really buying the land, because price would have increased dramatically.
Sounds like they were taken advantage of during covid, because they were vulnerable. These were decent homes also, in size and style.
Definitely
These were beautiful homes, and I can imagine how nice the neighborhood was.. its a shame that big industry bullies people into leaving their lives for more concrete and steel..
Like others, I am wondering why people left their possessions? It’s not like their stuff was chemically infected. Plus I still don’t know why they sold their beautiful homes. How can someone make you sell what is yours? Is it all fear based? Is the land going to become part of the airport nearby? Or is a huge Amazon warehouse and parking lot going to be built there.
@@rosanneschillings254 Prologis and ML Realty spent $64 million, or an average of $615,000 per house, to buy a Bensenville neighborhood where public data shows only a handful of homes ever sold for more than $400,000, according to Crain’s
Amazon should be ashamed of themselves. How do you force people out there home's? How do they feel that's right? What if they lost their home to a force out company? This is sad! It makes me want to stop buying stuff from Amazon.
Perfect reason to boycott their garbage products
Im sure he feels terrible, as he is living in one of several mansions and flying to space..
@@quesadilla14 well they do actually carry good brands but most there products made by them are garbage
They didn't really force them. They paid them double of their house value. People just chose to take the money and move.
How do you "force" them out? you offer them enough money to leave, in some cases over 3x what their home was worth. A corporation can not directly force anyone out. I have yet to hear of any government action in this case, does anyone have any info on that? Are there some that would rather not leave, sure but like I said, I know of no government action actually FORCING these people to leave. They all willingly accepted an offer for their homes, I don't think anyone was holding a gun to their heads making them sign a sales contract.
On google maps you can see the whole neighborhood get erased in 3 years. There is so much vacant land in this country, mind blowing that this is economical for these companies to even consider.
after listening to the guy around the 10:50 mark it makes a lot more sense. They have always wanted this land for commercial with easy access to the airport. They got at the neighbors individually for cheaper buyouts. What should have happened is the neighborhood forms forms an association and lawyer to negotiate a complete buyout. The cost per unit would have been much higher. They got a few to cave with a high buyout early on, then people start panicking and selling because they do not want to be last. Then the holdouts who saw the complete picture from the beginning get screwed.
*finds gun*
"hey man! check out my Alec Baldwin impression!"
Damn, did that really happen 2 years ago already!
I lived in Mohawk Manor in Bensenville , it as my childhood home..My sister sold the family home, I was trying to recognize some houses..I heard one home sold for a Million dollars bc they held out..Spruce st was connected to Pine Ave that took you through the neighborhood..It was a good family neighborhood..What a shame..
Thanks for these videos ❤ born and raised in IL. School in WI. My heart goes out to everyone. Devastating.
Disgusting that big corporations do crap like this..destroying lives without a bat of an eyelash, sign of the times, evil.😒 ..great job documenting
Buckle up….. this is just the beginning. Us conspiracy theorists tried to warn everyone…. But we are crazy but jobs right?
Sometimes you need to listen to “the crazy”
Sadly its gone on since the industrial age. The railroads did it....expansion wiped out whole towns across the whole country. I always root for those that hold out completely n make them build around them!
I suppose with the economy the way it is its only a matter of time for most people to have to take the money.
Beautiful homes. I love how spaced out they were and how each one had a different style. Nowadays the houses all look the same hardly bi space between. This is heartbreaking 💔
Thanks for documenting this terrible situation.
Amazon are disgusting to do this to a neighborhood and peoples lives.
Rivian (electric truck co. out of CA) is doing this to the most beautiful agricultural area in the tiny town of Rutledge GA. The governor gave Rivian this land. The people are trying to fight it, plus, Rivian is doing terrible on the money and product end.
The fact that they had an among us wall sticker says they haven't been gone too long. Crazy seeing these abandoned places
I know 🤣
Weird that on Google Maps the sat. images show the few homes that remain and most of the foundations of those torn down. But on street-view everything still is as it was.
Actually a bit odd that this tiny oasis of suburban bliss lasted this long surrounded on all sides as it was by suburban light-industry/commercial blight.
@raukris street view isn't updated as often as the Google earth image
@@ericcarlson18
Oh I know. It's not unusual to be in street-view and have everything switch to older (or newer) images at a certain point. Just thought it was nice to see it as it was before.
It's sad, but not very unusual considering this neighborhood or "town" was in a commercial/industrial area right next to main highway systems. Makes sense for Amazon. Sucks that it happened though.
The biggest reason for all this was for OHare expansion. More runways. What to do with the property? Amazon warehouse. Amongst others.
It’s sad, and terrifying knowing this is going to accelerate as time passes.
this is going to happen to my neighborhood in tennessee soon. my heart breaks. we are being pushed out by greed.
Dm me on Instagram. Kglick89. I could possibly fly out there soon...
I hope your able to get the help you need
@@StringerMediafly out and do exactly what ?? Content 😢
This was an odd case. The neighborhood was completely surrounded by industry in all directions. These people hit the jackpot.
Yea I think it’s a win for both sides. Getting paid 3x their homes value easily over $1 million a home . Can’t be beat, they could use that money to buy a home in cash with plenty of money left over to invest if they play their cards right.
Agreed
@@missdeeva2266EXACTLY!!
Your channel is extremely underrated it's insane
edit: I'm from Chicagoland so I love watching all of your Chicagoland videos
Agreed love this channel
What a beautiful neighborhood that was. So very sad!
In Markham Illinois they did the same thing. Claiming it was because the tollway that ran behind the neighborhood was expanding. They tore town many streets. Amazon now has a huge warehouse there. Disgusting!!!
That's a pilot light in the gas fireplace.. not spooky ghosts.
This is terrible but the real shame is it could happen anywhere now a days.
Money over people in the USA right now so sad an scary seems more like a fascist/communist country then the USA and the fact it can happen to anybody everywhere in America is crazy
We had several neighborhood buyouts one of them however, they bought them out, but they also moved their houses about 5 miles down the road and set up the same exact neighborhood as it was before just on different land interesting I never understand on these houses why don’t ppl go in and take all the building materials
Very sad!!! But that guy hit the nail on the head when he said “sign of the times”
I dont know how you dont have more subs and views you deserve way more keep grinding your content is amazing it will pay off. Watching videos like these just makes me want to get out there and explore
Instead of saying it's a sign of the times, figure out ways to do something about it. This kind of corporate greedy behavior will eventually effect you.
Can't do nothing about it
They could have said no. Amazon doesn't have Eminent Domain. I doubt Amazon low balled them price wise. I'm no big fan of Amazon, but at least it was Amazon. If it was the broke state of Illinois and they wanted to put an interstate thru that neighborhood they would have gotten 40c on the dollar.
We could all start NOT buying from dumbshit companies like Amazon..........
This is so sad…I grew up in Carol Stream and I’m sure it’ll start happening there soon too.
Side note: that fireplace you guys got freaked out about. It was a natural gas fireplace. The flame just means the gas is still on.
And I grew up in that neighborhood and now live in Carol Stream.
@@karendooley3442 I’m sorry 😞 I used to live by Army Trail and Fair Oaks but it’s been 23 years since then
I lived in Carol Stream 50 years ago. 😢
@@joyful_tanya it’s been 25 years since I lived there but born and raised there for 16 years.
@@Nunyabidness823 I lived there from approximately 1969-1973. I live in a northwestern suburb now.
When I see videos like this or hear similar stories, I'm reminded of the ending of Little House on the Prairie where a wealthy businessman bought the entire town of Walnut Grove. In protest, the citizens of the town ended up blowing up all the houses in the town to stick it to the businessman. I'm sure there may be some who wish they could do the same from this neighborhood.
This is just another sign of the end times we're currently facing... It'll only get worse.. . Glad I was born in '72... At least I got to enjoy a carefree life for a little while..
Born in 66. I feel so sad for my grandkids.
So sad. 🥺
Edited to add:
Great job on your videos. Keep it up. I just found your channel and I’m watching all your videos now.
Thanks a bunch, means a lot
Great video. "It's a sign of the times". Great summation of the situation.
Awesome work thank you
Don't think for a minute that this can't happen in your neighborhood!!
They can't force you to sell
My neighborhood is safe lol I live in the hood 😂
Wow! Such beautiful homes. How sad 😔
I used to deliver steel in Bensenville. Several family members worked there for years.
Such a shame . You would think they could have at least sent some charity in to clear out all the stuff that was just left .
And so many amazing homes that I’m sure a lot of us could only dream of owning , bought up and just left to be wrecked. Really shows how much these corporations have to chuck about .
Why buy hole neighborhoods when I’m sure there was other spots they could build on .
I have to imagine Amazon wanted this because of its proximity to O'Hare. If this neighborhood is the one I'm thinking of, it's almost like an "island" in the middle of an industrial/warehouse area.
If it’s the one south of IL 390 you’re correct. It’s gone now. Very sad
I was born a tired, old, sumbtch. Took me 45 years to grow into it. Having said that. Awesome job boys, awesome job. Music at the end, and the narrators cadence, perfecto.
This shit is so sad. I couldn't begin to fathom the neighborhood that I spent majority of my life and hard work in become desolate solely because companies want to buy out the land and repurpose it. I know that things get old and must be replaced but that neighborhood looked like most people cared about their homes only for them to be purposefully neglected by the new owners. It really brings tears to my eyes.
Beautiful homes and the people seem good human beings wish them well for the future
I work at a fedex up the road from me, the road keeps filling up with warehouses, the whole area in general is wonder if they’ll try to move into my complexs
Wow! Who knew! That was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
There needs to be laws passed to protect residential properties from commercial investors. Corporations and big buisness should not be able to do things like this.
I think if the neighborhood stick together and refuse to take the offer from big corporates, they would have been there, still. But maybe majority of them liked to take the offer and moved.
It is sad, I lived and worked in the Chicagoland area as a service tech, I know these homes and the people in them and many others like that.
However , this story has been told time after time for decades , after decades.
What I find ironic is that the very beast that swallowed this neighborhood, was the same beast that the people of this area nursed from a fledgling into a great monster with their own self indulgence.
How ironic.
It seems like scummy business practices that caused this. How could the residents have helped build monster?
@@zacp2770
By making Amazon what it is today. Remember when it was just an online book sales ?
Now, all of the local mom and pop stores are out of business.
All small retailers gone, small business of every type......
I could go on and on.
I would love one of those houses, it's better than not having your own house. I have never had my own home. Please give us information if you are wanting to rent to own them out, so sad with all the homeless people all over the United States
Love your channel interesting stuff keep up the good work❤
My grandparents were the last in the area to sell their home in Markham, Illinois for an Amazon warehouse. This was like 2017-2018. I still wonder how much they got for it. They packed up and moved to Vegas!
As of today the land is completely clear of all trees and homes even the soil has been cleared away.
That's just utter sadness
2 years ago a company tried to take my family’s land and many others land to put a hydroelectric dam in they said there wasn’t anything historical or any cemetery’s which was a lie and basically half of my county that didn’t live where I live turned on us saying we were stupid for not letting them take our land for a dam
Check out Sunny Side Hills neighborhood in Elk Grove Village less than a mile away. It's on the corner of Devon and Tonne. The village has been buying up the pocket of neighborhoods that were eventually stuck in industrial area.
This is giving me 90's camcorder home movie vibes. And I'm here for it 📹
Super sad. These people of Bensenville were some of the best people I've ever meet throughout my life living near by. I always wanted a home there now it will never be, it's just sad part of living the America dream. 😢
For those that don't feel like watching this only to be disappointed... Amazon bought everyone out and these were the last to leave. Others are saying it was to enlarge O'Hare airport but the owner of this video literally put in the title of the original full length video, "neighborhood abandoned when Amazon bought them out" or something to that effect. So - someone is wrong and I would guess it's the people that weren't there.
The commenters can't even read the title
There was another area that was torn down for expansion of the airport ... people are confusing that video with this. Crazy that people would want to live so close to the runways .... pollution. This area in this video is a mile away and in between the runways.
The greed behind stealing all those houses from those people is disgusting. They could have built on open plots of land, but no.
They bought them. Didn't steal em.
I see so many things that should be salvaged and reused. The wood floors, windows, doors, etc. so many are homeless that would gladly live there. It’s a shame. Makes me want to use Amazon less. God Bless😇
I can't believe Bensenville has done this again... This same sort of thing happened in 2011 when they tore down a neighborhood for ohare
Happening again as we speak
Woah, I love this. I wana do this I wana my documentary And explore like this. I love you friggin Chanel
Much appreciated bro
So sad because it was a really nice homes. I don’t know how people could force you to move. It’s just wrong. God bless that man and his family
This was incredibly depressing, and kind of creepy. All of those homes look like they were once very nice; the whole neighborhood looks like it was a great place to live. All of those families, friendships, memories…to just have to leave everything behind. And many of them left a lot of their possessions, probably because they didn’t have any idea about what to do next, and where to go.
Only comment is generally to avoid license plates when you can, otherwise solid video. Loved the drone shots.
I doubt it really matter to be honest
Yeah common misconception about license plates is that they give away any info, they’re not important to cover up tbh
This is so upsetting. The reality is just one of those families matters more than 100 corporations! The corporations should exist only in so far as they serve the interests of HUMANITY! To see these people abandoned dreams and the death of that future is just heartbreaking. There need to be laws about the purchase of homes by large entities and foreign entities as well about the owning of farmland or anything else where it is better for the general welfare to have various small owners of land and homes to support families. Government and Corporations should make our lives better not scavenger us like toxic parasites.
Pro Logis is an evil empire. I used to work in a place called McGaw Park. It was a nice campus with walkways, a picnic grove with a shelter. A lake, softball fields and a volleyball court. Pro Logis completely destroyed the site and built those stupid big box warehouses. It looks awful and ugly.
Wow what a beautiful estate how utterly sad such beautiful homes 🏠
What a shame..to be caught in that after enjoying your home for so many years.
These houses are beautiful. You should take your time when recording so we can get a better look. Shame on evil Amazon. The world use to be a much better place
Tldr, a neighborhood surrounded by warehouses within close proximity of O'Hare Airport was bought out to build more warehouses for Amazon or other companies, to be honest it looked like the neighborhood wasn't very well located anyway but it is sad for people who had to relocate.
Well done documentary!
Thanks for sharing, I can see you'd get a lot of more subscribers if you slowed your panning of the camera, got a good light, and turned a lot more slowly! Makes the viewer sick in the head trying to watch it.
I know you'd get a lot more because the content is great! You remind me of Ethan minnie, another explorer in his beginning years and now he's at sigh of 100k, by keeping at it and improving his videos 🥰
Thank you so much! I am always improving
This is scary. It's ridiculous. Makes you not even want to buy a house. Just rent!
Don't rent. That's exactly what they want and why their doing this
@@StringerMedia why do they not want people to rent?
They want ppl to rent so they can own EVERYTHING and you will be at their mercy for the same…everything. Raised rent? F*** you, pay up! We don’t like your political views, you have 48rs to vacate this property or get hauled off to Gulag. Just kidding, it’s Gulag for you anyway.
Don't rent that's throwing your money away. These people were paid handsomely for their properties. If you rent you get evicted and you get nothing.
Very sad situation Looked like a Beautiful neighborhood
5:18 "bless you" 🤧 Great video and channel Thank you. Now I know your friend has a similar channel to you, both subscribed too. For younger generation great content. 💞
This, my friend, seems like the beginning of "Corporate Towns".... en mass. 😞
I'd like to know what it looks like now in 2023.
Completely gone. 3 warehouses stand in its place
@@StringerMedia True! I do stand corrected! I did hear about that! So at least in THIS case, no, not a "Corporate Town". (And hopefully it stays that way! lol!)
Same exact thing that happened to coal mine towns. We're booming for 50 years now abandoned or crime ridden.
I think this is amazing. Private enterprise expanding their capacity to maximise their efficiencies.
Very insightful