Exploring an Abandoned Neighborhood Bought out by big Corporations
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- DISCLAIMER: We made this video for the neighborhood and its occupants as a permanent record of what once was, as a final memory. We had full permission to film by workers on site. If you do happen to find this place do not enter. You will be caught.
Man, I really wished this community would have stood their ground and said we aren't moving. We have become so soft as Americans. A few can't make a difference, but if we were all hand in hand we would be an unstoppable machine. We must learn to love one another before they turn us all against each other....
Honey, these corporations are paying these people a lot of money to move out. They’re not hurting it’s not what it looks like.
Amen. Truer words were never spoken.
its crazy how badly our country is ravaged by homelessness and at the same time big corporations are buying homes in the hundreds just to let them waste away
They paid these people 3-4x their worth and bulldozed them. What would you like growing commerce to do!?
For what reason??
@@loralou-djflowerdove Amazon warehouses
There's a bigger plan involved
Waste away? What? The government made them buy out the land ! The area is contaminated with something, big corporations don't just buy all the houses for nothing! Think about it!
Only in America, would we allow perfectly good well built homes just rot away and intentionally not allow people to stay in them . . What a waste.
It's theses big company's buying them out
@@nickpatrick1636 it's sickening
@@billybobscat6233 nothing we can do about it they only care about there money not us people
@@nickpatrick1636 your not alone. I too Understand that unfortunate truth. .
If the water supply is contaminated and toxic, there could very well be water damage or mold involved. There's a severe reason behind their departure.
DISCLAIMER: We made this video for the neighborhood and its occupants as a permanent record of what once was, as a final memory. We had full permission to film by workers on site. If you do happen to find this place do not enter. You will be caught.
Then why do you explore it?
@@johnsantorelli9290He said they had permission and exactly why they filmed it. Didn't you read it? Lol
No
@@johnsantorelli9290 I hate this stupid kid too. 😂😂😂😂
@@johnsantorelli9290what
Soon, no one but the very rich will be able to own their own home. We will be a nation of renters trapped by corporations that will dictate where we can live and how much we will pay. Scary.
Pretty much
That's the plan
@smoggington1240 Yep!
you know, that sounds eerily similar to how citizens in the half life universe live.
@smoggington1240 Just don't call it a comeback.
I can just imagine families laughing, having holidays, making dinner ect...super eerie. I'm from Illinois and I've never heard of this town
Bensenville il next to Ohara airport
Been to O’ Hare on a return fight back to St. Louis back in 1970, my only time.
where exactly
This is heartbreaking seeing our brick 17 yrs old house lefth behind i have so so many memory's with my grandkids big house 3800 sq ft lot size 200x300 land planting flowers and veggie, watching the sun go dawn o what a place .
Which home was yours?
@@StringerMedia i 'm Carlas mom house nr 6N706 i cant hold my tears no more Carla hase a video on face book of Santa creping in the house
@@StringerMedia brick home triangle window with long brick drive way
Were you guys forced to sell? I’m horribly sorry for your experience and I know no money can pay where you have raised your children/memories. For the sounds of it it didn’t sound like you had any plans of selling it. I hope you guys did OK and are doing OK
@@karlagarcia1851 yes force to sale and move out 45 days it hit the community like a tsunami we relocate we are ok but stiil recovering take care Karla
Looked up this neighborhood on google maps. Very pretty area when the trees were still there. Hope everyone made out good money-wise. Probably happy to get away from those airplanes overhead! Enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.
I live next to an airport, and honestly, after a little while, you don't even notice them.
@@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf same with trains
@@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf That's so true. I live next to Metra train station and thought I'd be annoyed but just as you say after a while you don't even notice the noise.
@@stalinschicken3432 YEP.
Yeah so they can start again only to have it all taken from their kids.
Man these videos give me sense of dread and like a mysterious feeling in my gut. Someone's childhood, parenthood, teenage years or even young 20 something just had to pick up and go asap and left behind so much memories and emotions behind in these places. You have an amazing channel that can capture so emotions out of people. Keep killing it brother!
@@shirousagiexe Damn man that was beautiful and depressingly true at the same time. It really sucks time has to keep ticking and great things have to leave out of our lives.
I went there today. I got permission from some of the guys there. Some old guy walking called the cops on me but the cop didn’t care that I was there.
Well I work for the FD near by and we did a lot of work in those houses to make them safe for us to train in and we didn’t like that people were walking through potentially making it dangerous for us..
@@E6ABHnavy if they get permission then they can walk in it
Who do you get permission from?
@@E6ABHnavyI'm just now watching the video. Make this make sense? Your with the FD and you got permission to train in these Homes? And all these people had to move out in 46 days cause Amazon bought them out? Forced to move out , Of Homes they have blood,sweat,and tears in? Make it makes sense! Then let me ask your FD all of them. How does it feel to train in someone family home! ?
This neighborhood/town was bought out to expand O’Hare International airport just FYI. Stared back in 2007 and continues today. Crazy too see!
It was bought out by Amazon but pretty much the same deal. Amazon is the Government at this point
This is crazy I was a little kid in the 80s in Bensenville I was in Tioga when it was the old building
No it was bought by Amazon
@@StringerMedia the same place was bought out by both?
The channel mentioned (on a short linked to two videos) that it was abandoned bc of toxic water, and Amazon. The videos mention O’Hare.
No city names in titles to tie them together, so I was confused. Still am.
EDIT: someone responded that it’s Amazon. Thanks for the clarification! I looked it up and posted part of one of many of the O’Hare articles tied to Bensenville.
Wow with the extreme price of building materials it would be great to be able to dismsntle all those houses and put the materials back into new houses. That alarm was from the power being disconnected. Most of the alarms you are running into are from the power being cut off. do some research on the systems in the houses and you will find that there are no active alarms for houses that are going to be bull dozed.
That was my first thought, all of the good building material that could’ve been reused. Before the vandals came, of course.
@deebrown9267 Truly. I saw a video where there is a valley near this place where there are at least a hundred firetrucks that were just abandoned. I wish I knew where that was. So many great things could nee built from the instead of allowing them to rust away into the dirt. Those trucks were from the 40's and 50''s and were from a time when things were built better than today.
Just found your channel, from the burbs next door, thanks for making these - incredible to see & a time capsule simultaneously.
Many thanks!
This is truly sad. Part of my brain sees these homes thriving… families living, and laughing all dwindled down to this. 😢
Is it any wonder that housing is so expensive when this kind of thing is happening ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES ?!?
With all of the homeless, this makes me sad...
Agreed some nice 2 story homes also just gone to waste
Same exact thoughts 😢
Woo Hoo 16 minutes
Congrats on the improvements and the narration added I look forward to more videos from U 😎😎👍🏻
glad that's what you guys wanted 😁
You got my interest in your TT video and ran to watch it. THANKS I didn't know about this.
This video was beautifully done.
These videos u share…and the reality of these situations, are very unsettling.
People can buy a house, anywhere. But, people buy a house and cultivate this into a home. The home is the source of “center” and stability in people’s lives. This is where family and memories are cultivated. To have a corporation buy out people to relocate them for the corporation’s benefit is truly antithetical to the American Dream and to promoting the idea of fostering families and communities. These are the most heartless and thoughtless corporations I have experienced.
A lot of those houses got a lot of good Scrap. The Appliances alone, if they still work, that's a couple hundred right there and it wouldn't be hard at all to find a buyer. If you know what you're doing and have the right tools you can even safely remove the tile.
It’s crazy to think that families used to make memories there it kinda in a way makes me sad
Ikr
tell me about
No power means no sump pumps running and no heat to keep pipes from bursting, you can shut off the water meters but all the pipes in the house will still hold water if not drained. Honestly not surprised by stuff left behind, what better way to get rid of stuff you don't want anymore when moving then to leave them behind since you know the place will be leveled anyhow.
Just wasteful!!! Do you know how many homeless ppl or single mothers could use one of these houses and make it a home??!! Smh
Great video, a little sad to see considering some of these homes could have been fixed up and used for families a shame fr
I would demolish anything of value. There is still so much left behind that is functional. Sinks, fridges, freezers ovens etc
The "fancy" house sold in 2019 for 500k and then the corp paid 1.5 mil in 2021.. crazy return for the people who bought at the right time..
Ok, so the exact location is 41.991227° -87.964758° and this neighborhood has been been surrounded by industrial parks since at least 1985 (Google Earth only goes back that far).
Reportedly the private developers bought out all the homes for an average of $615,000 each which was about 150% market value. They've built 3 of 4 planned warehouses there, leased one to UPS, another to a Swiss logistics company, and Apex Logistics a third. One more to go. As far as I can tell, Amazon is/was not involved in any way.
do you think this will continue happening in many more neighborhoods across the USA?
@@nvateach1 Probably happens every day at some scale or another. If a location is valuable enough to a business, they'll pay a premium to buy up the property and repurpose it. This is why zoning laws exist so businesses don't invade all residential areas, but in this case the neighborhood was already completely surrounded by industry for the last 35+ years.
@@daemn42 what most people don't realize is that the main goal is to take total control of the entire world as written in Agenda 2030 Great Reset by the WEF World Economic Forum and UN United Nations lead by the first Jesuit Freemason Luciferian Pope Francis. It's only a downward spiral from here.
After taking a good look at the surrounding area, I guess it was only a matter of time before corporate America swallowed it whole (that is, if O'Hare didn't get their O'Hands on it first). It's like how an entire section of Riverdale, GA was bulldozed so Hartsfield-Jackson could build a fifth runway (world's busiest airport, woot woot!). Even if the suburbs are soul-crushing, it's still a shame that the 40+ years of happy memories made in these homes are no more.
What a waste, it's shameful.
It’s crazy to thing all of that effort and money gone to waste. Im also weird imagine the life’s people had before they left. Like how that kid had to leave that awesome basketball room.
This is actually pretty cool. Subbed, found you through tiktok 👍
The way the sun is shining... creepy. Great video
The constant overhead noise from planes would drive me out.
you don't notice it after a couple months. Honestly, it fades into the background. Even for the cats it does. They don't even flinch anymore.
I’ve literally lived in bensenville my whole life. Town sucks ass. Moving to Phoenix on Monday. Can’t wait.
How did the move go
Born & raised here also except for a few years of college - returned after buying grandmother's house. Corruption in almost every village department runs rampant. The town WAS a great place to grow up... not now
That big house had a nice setup, can tell the guy had a whole bar setup downstairs. Seemed to have tap setups and Co2 tanks in the closet! Even had a bathroom with urinal for massive parties….id love to hear the story here …although it looks sad, I’m sure these people were paid fairly above market value for their homes to sellout. Usually they all leave because the price is worth it..but still, to see it all like this is definitely eerie
There are SOOOO many materials and structural things that could be reused…I hope they don’t waste it all.
So. Much. Recycling. Materials. !!!!!!!
Is this the subdivision south of il route 390 and west of il route 83
This is not all of bensenville since majority was bought out by the state to expand and adjudicate for the complaints for O’Hare
DISGUSTING!!! What a waste! Makes me sick. Sick enough to think twice before ordering anything from that big ole Warehouse down the road.
I used to live in elk Grove village. Bensenville always felt sad to me
As usual superb video. They are better longer
Thanks I'll keep that in mind
46 days to move out... get your tools are tear some places apart for 2nd hand windows and doors that are usually super expensive. Take em for a rebuild or resell them for a quick flip.
Hey boss, I also did some urbex-ing here later after this video was published. Found out about this place just biking around 'cause I live local, neighboring suburb. I got the chance to record my expeditions here with my VHS & MiniDV camcorders & I would like to do more places like this, since these houses are no more. Would you be willing to perhaps share some neat spots that would go hard on VHS? I can provide proof that I only explore & not tag up places & all. Gobless & I hope something can occur 🙏🙏
I don't see the video on your channel but I subscribed!
@@StringerMedia I'd be happy to send over the links to the raw footage, they're unlisted because they're just unedited clips & such | Edit: Thanks for the sub boss, much appreciated 💪💪
@@latorafaru snap is kglick89
@@StringerMedia Thanks, just sent the request 👍💪
VHS? Are you a time traveler from 1987?
I hope what ever Big Corp bought up all those homes paid the home owners top dollar for running them out.
So all of the doors are unlocked. I'm guessing after this place was abandoned, people explored, took things, and ransacked these places in waves over the following years. WHY did everyone leave so fast that they left their stuff? Absolutely bizarre.
it's a shame that had to happen, they look like expensive homes.
The city of Chicago owns O’Hare Airport. So corporation’s did not push people out. Chicago bought the city and it’s inhabitants out for the airport expansion… this started maybe 15years ago
Some pretty nice houses and big ones too
This happens everywhere on the planet though
I come from a city called Birmingham in the uk and there’s a shithole full of high rise flats, high crime rate and 99% of residents don’t own their pad but there’s 1 guy who does and refuses to leave no matter the price thrown at him
In Australia there’s a clip on UA-cam aswell of a family being offered $3.8 million for their property and haven’t budged
Surely these owners have been offered over market value to sell
But greed and money will test people
The dial up internet sounds in the intro music 😅👌
The city bought the neighborhood not big corporations. For a future o’hare expansion. A cemetery they want to relocate is tied up in court right now. Never a good idea to buy next to a major airport.
I tried telling him that, but he just said, "not true". I asked if he could provide his source and have yet to receive a response. This was 10 days ago.
Pretty houses too
This is so sad some of the houses looks brand new and a lot of them look older and a lot of the houses look very nice looking inside and out and they all took the money it’s worth more than living there and it’s sad that everybody had a lot of very nice neighbors next door
30,000 years of humans becoming an agricultural, industrial, and technological commodity all the while imagining we were running the farm
ALL these videos are crushingly sad and haunting. 😑
It is so sad to see perfectly good homes going to waste. A really nice neighborhood too. Big box corporations sre really f****** up, buying perfectly good homes only to let them stay empty. If I lived in that neighborhood I definitely would have fought for my home🙁
How many houses was there? I see 106 and that isn't the first neighborhood Bentonville has done this to
It's as if everyone had just a few days to grab essential items and the majority of valuable items. But the fact that nobody has reused many of those items or materials is mind boggling!
What area was this at? Are the homes still like this or have they been demolished yet? Some of these homes are beautiful
Demolished. Bensenville off the highway
How. Absolutely. Sad. !
There goes my house 😅… I was part of this mess .
Wow
Hey neighbor 😁
I’m so sorry for all. Hope everyone made out ok
Really sad how many appliances or anything at all salvageable that could have been donated was just left to go to waste.
Think about all of the stuff that could have gone to Habitat for Humanity!
Also check out some haunted homes in that area and Elkgrove village like 55 Brantwood and what happened there in 5/76 it has to be unaturally tainted
That's lived in
Yes it is and I find that very very disturbing I would not want to be in that house for 1 second that woman well if you call her that tortured & slaughtered her family in that house along with her boyfriend that was a pharmacist and was married with young children of his own and he was almost as old as her own father very tragic & unbelievable
It’s amazing how wasteful we are as a society.
So uncanny. Nothing seems weathered! No damp spots, mildew, rodents or insects; not even cob web! No over grown lawns...maybe these places are seldomly used because for 'abandoned' properties, they do not seem to be. Wow alarm still working[electricity]. These looks like movie sets.
Sooo sad and disturbing all of these families lives just devastating
Any idea when this development was built? I'd take an uneducated guess 30 - 40 years ago, maybe?
Some houses might go all the way back to the 1940s while the most recent look like 1990s built
Guess I'm gonna go drive around Bensenville to find this
If it's even there
At least it wasnt so bad as Maui. They will do anything to obtain cheap property.
It’s sooo sad and selfish. We have people that are homeless, there’s people that live in apartments that pay their rent on time that would love a home, but they make it so difficult to buy one. Here, you have homes just sitting. Smdh
Guess being given a million made the decision easier.
I live in that community and about 2 mi from that neighborhood. Those residents were offered 3 times value to sell. There is another wave to the south coming. People have already sold and moved.
This is just sad how many homes are just rotting away
This is a small peek into what an apocolytic world may be like it’s scary it’s creepy it’s disgusting it’s sad it could really happen on a very large scale the powers that be local state & national need to change
So what happened to make these houses end up in this state?
Other explorers and vandals found it shortly after I did even though I was the first to keep this place on my radar since summer
That water was not toxic. Amazon paid the EPA commission tasked with surveying the land to fake the water report. The amount of taxes and revenue generated by the warehouse was WAAAAAY more than some serfs paying taxes.
I wonder how much of Benseville?? That’s crazy I actually student taught there in 2019 at Fenton HS, there were some good kids and teachers there that cared a lot.
Money gone down the drain and people are still homeless in america smdh #Trump2024
It's the big companys
Have you explored the house where the Spilottro brothers were beaten & executed before taken to that cornfield in Indiana
Yes
I envisioned one of the smaller brick cube styled bungalows like over around Marshall Blvd & Brookwood off of Rt 83 & Rt 19 I had relatives over there many years ago I know “B “ ville is huge but never knew that those mansions existed over there I am familiar with the industrial district where I did a lot of Truck driving over the years when I was an LTL p/d Cartage driver
Those houses are not old enough to have asbestos and I didn't see a single indicator that any of those people were old. You need to try harder to give us some explanation for what is happening to these neighborhoods or will that get you censored?
1 way to keep you downstairs is to remove the upstairs
Would of been a great place for filming apocalypse movies or paint balling
Why don't they move these homes to vacant lots, or deconstruct the and reassemble them . That would be a far better solution than creating more homeless families. We already got too many of them.
Bensenville is one of the few communities in DuPage County where there are reasonable housing prices.
Chicago was given the authority to condemn more than 1,000 houses in the section of Bensenville east of York Road, south of Hillside and north of Green by the Illinois General Assembly in the O’Hare Modernization Act.
Legislature passed laws condemning the property under eminent domain.The demolition of several hundred acres of land forced residents out of the area,
so the people were basically forced to sell their properties. Devaluing thier property values and increasing taxes. The city purchased 514 homes in the area, with offers to homeowners based on appraisals of the homes. It was said it wasn't enough.
According to complaint against the city, hundreds of property owners left the neighborhood, leaving it a deserted wasteland.
Many Bensenville residents were resistant to the city’s attempts to buy their property. The remaining village residents had levied against the city, including that Chicago deliberately lied to Bensenville residents, and that the ambitious phase two of the modernization plan was never going to be completed. A court fight was just another part in a 20-year “prolonged battle” between Bensenville and Chicago concerning the airport.
What this village offered was a quality of life not really attainable at the price of the houses, so people were very reluctant to give that up.
All that remains occupied in the space between O’Hare Airport and York Road is the Johannes Cemetery.
The city & town destroyed the St. John cemetery years ago- saying they relocated all the graves. Doubtful considering the age of the cemetery. The remaining cemetery is Resthaven.. much smaller and safe.. for now anyway.
Were is this???, It very sad all these homes going to rot, it is all wrong, jf.
Why? Why is the neighbourhood abandoned??
so then tell me why the USA has so may homeless!!??? There ARE HOMES!!!! USE THEM!!!!
That part were youre having deja Vu and you say that the kid said they're thinking of buying it out.... Guess they did.....
Dude that was soul crushing...
Thanks Amazon for the neighbor disappeared for your greed ,😡😠
What do you expect
@@nickpatrick1636 that is the truth about that matter young man 👍😎
Sad sad sad and sad. How nice houses. There used to live people literally few days ago. It's only because of the big storage around? And what's in this halls. Are they for Amazon or smth? I don't understand. They need sooo much space? Sth is really bad here.... 😢
Really sad watching this,not sure how they just leave stuff behind like that
It's just stuff you hang on to because throwing it away seems wasteful, but when you have to move your whole life, it seems ridiculous to cling to.
"Visited a kids house here"? Not the "meet Chris Hansen" kinda visit, I hope. 😆
Welcome to end-stage capitalism…
I was thinking the same thing because it really does look like fallout 4 only thing missing is the ghouls and the rusty 200 year old robots
No clue why people would leave without taking their stuff. It's not like they couldn't hire moving crews. But I guess when you're rich and stuff is potentially toxic you just buy new stuff. Not to mention if they got paid 3-4x over value maybe because it was meant to cover their belongings also that would have to be left behind perhaps?
It's odd the place isn't stripped clean by thieves or "recyclers" why not? Toxins? Damn Shame.
America needs to do Big Better than putting up a Amazon
1:04 that’s my old house
Someone please make this a paint ball field
What’s the song called at the end of the video?
To bad they couldn't have auctioned off tje houses to have them moved to a different location.