3 found dead in hotel roomPolice are investigating the deaths of three adults who were found unresponsive in a Lakeview hotel room Friday. The three were found at about 2:30 p.m. at the Chateau Hotel in the 3800 block of North Broadway on Chicago's North Side, police said.
Police declined to further identify the three at this time, saying only they were adults. No information about the condition of the room, or what else was found within it, was released late Friday. The situation is being handled as a death investigation, pending autopsy results, police said. A hotel clerk would not comment on the deaths.
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Update: WBBM780's saying they may have OD'd on drugs.
this is a sad story. I often wonder about the safety inside that place. I hope that it wasn't something wrong with the building itself (CO poisoning or something) that caused the deaths, but if it was I can only hope that it will prompt the management to invest a little in the appearance of the place and the actual structure itself.
ReplyDeleteThe police reported that the cause of deaths were drug overdoses. Personally, I feel ZERO sympathy. I see it as three less $900-per-month SSI disability payments of tax payer money used to purchase narcotics and alchohol. Three less people to rob or mug innocent citizens. Three less inmates clogging the court and jail system. If you play with fire, you're likely to get burned.
ReplyDeleteHow do you know they didn't work a lifetime for their SSI? And how can you say that they rob people? SOme people on this site are just ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteThey were junkies living at the Chateau who died of drug overdoses in one room. What are the chances that they were hard working, upstanding citizens? Get real! I see it everyday, drug users robbing, attacking, stealing. People freely admitting that they shoot or smoke every penny of their disability checks - most of whom have ZERO cause to be on disability. That is a major problem with our disability system, human leeches using tax payer money to buy dope, prostitutes, and Air Jordans.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance.
ReplyDeleteThe people on this site (and in CAPS meetings) seem to be consistently ready to give up on people and assume the worst of individuals. For instance I was at a CAPS meeting (at Truman) and the sergeant in charge of the meeting seriously claimed that kids at the age of thirteen were too old to be helped! Really? You mean to tell me that at the age of thirteen a persons life is set for the next eighty years? It's the same thing with this. Even though I don't doubt that these people were wasting public funds they didn't deserve to die for it as chicagocitizen seems to believe.
ReplyDeleteWhile we do tend to generalize, I would lean towards the summary of chicagocitizen. While it's nice to always give people the benefit of doubt, we live in Uptown and the reality of this type of lifestyle is in our faces every time we walk outside. It's an unfortunate waste of a human being.
ReplyDeleteThe people on this site (and in CAPS meetings) seem to be consistently ready to give up on people and assume the worst of individuals.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break. Your own generalization about "people on this site" completely disregards the very first comment, which begins "this is a sad story." Talk about generalizing?
And the people on this site donate school supplies. They volunteer at the schools. They go to anti-violence rallies.
You'll always find someone whose views are diametrically opposed to yours. Don't generalize and make it "everyone on this site."
I apologize, caring neighbor, when I said "the people" I meant the majority of people.
ReplyDelete"I meant the majority of people."
ReplyDeleteIf I take stock of the neighbors I know in Uptown, very few share the views of the "majority" you describe. Your comment reminds me of when COURAJ members used to say that "all condo owners use cocaine" as a justification to not go after drug dealers. That generalization was just a ludicris as the generalizations being thrown around here.
Personally, I'm proud to live in a community where so many neighbors do care about each other, regardless of color, income level, sexual orientation, cultural background, family structure, etc.
The one thing that raises my ire, though, are very specific extremists who make blanket accusations just to stir up people's hatred. Our Alderman comes to mind.
That's a lotta bodies. Must have been some real bad stuff.
ReplyDeleteWatch sales soar for that "brand" of drug. I kid you not. Everything you need to know about urban life can be gleaned from three shows on Baltimore: "The Wire", "Homicide", and "The Corner".
Drug users love the dangerous stuff because they think it will get them "higher". A few years back there was some deadly heroin on the West Side of Chicago and even with all the deaths folks were scrambling to get a hold of that stuff.
Seems crazy to those of us who aren't addicts.
"the sergeant in charge of the meeting seriously claimed that kids at the age of thirteen were too old to be helped! Really?"
ReplyDeleteWell that is his educated opinion. He lives the life so he can talk the talk. We might brush up against this stuff, he reads the reports. he sees statistics we don't.
Now I feel bad for the first person who took the bad drugs, maybe even a tad for the second person, but come on why did the third person take the drugs after the first two fished out?
Ouch that looks like it hurts, here let me try.
I agree completely with chicago citizen. I feel no sympathy when a gang member gets killed. These junkies play Russian roulette, so they get what they get.
ReplyDeleteHow many felonious acts do you think are committed on a daily basis by many of the wonderful citizens of the Hotel Chateau? I know for a fact that a resident was recently arrested for brutally attacking a senior citizen in a wheel chair on Broadway. Good riddance to these three.
I feel almost sick when people talk about the government's bottom line as being more important than human life.
ReplyDeletePeople who OD on drugs are completely responsible for their behavior. That doesn't mean we get to forget they are humans.
Just because you can't see their disability doesn't mean they are unable to work. A lot of these people are veterans who did their service for the government and came back with serious mental illness, for example.
You are an adult, you chose to live in this area. It's not like these people just popped up one day. Hoping that they die to save the government money isn't the solution.
While a lot - most - of people on disability need it, many are cons simply scamming the system. They get a diagnosis of "bipolar" or "schizophrenia" at a strip mall doctor shop, despite having no bonafide symptoms, then they smoke $900 of crack as soon as they get their monthly checks, then they show up an ER and demand to be hospitalized and chill out in a bed (and preey on other patients) that should be going to someone who needs and is invested in treatment. I see it happen constantly.
ReplyDeleteIt is not about the government's bottom line, it is about scumbags bilking the system. So, I agree that these are likely three less problems. If you repeatedly wave your hand in a pirana tank, you will eventually get bitten.
It is not about the government's bottom line, it is about scumbags bilking the system.
ReplyDeleteA proposed $700 billion bailout and we hardly bat an eye because those "scumbags" wear $2,000 suits. Give me a frikkin' break.
This is not about the horrible government bailout - that is a different conversation entirely - this is about three people who overdosed on narcotics in our neighborhood. To my original point, I personally could not care less. My feelings, or lack thereof, are consistent with those when a gangbanger or drug dealer or robber gets killed. It is simply a case of three (probably needle sharing) junkies facing the consequences of their dangerous, criminal actions. Good riddance. Too bad the Chateau does not close.
ReplyDeleteI believe the oldest person was 50 and the youngest was 32. I am not sure how old the female was. People don't OD from crack. The cause was most likely heroin.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes most people staying at the Chateau are on SSI or SSDI.
And the point the sergeant was trying to make is the intervention needs to start at a much earlier age than 13 for it to have a lasting effect on the child. At 13 outside influences are hard to overcome.
There, but for the grace of God, go I.
ReplyDeleteIt's only God's grace that keeps you from ODing on heroin with two buddies in a fleabag motel?
ReplyDeleteWow.
From the Sun-Times: "The three have been identified as Anthony Schiller, Daniel Whittle and Cynthia Catrell, according to a spokesman, who said the three had lived at the hotel for "a couple of years.""
Kenny, I fully accept that you believe low expectations are okay for people. I don't agree with it, but I know there's a declining group of people like you who do.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm curious. Have you ever heard the term "enabling"? Any thoughts about how it?
What are the chances that they were hard working, upstanding citizens?
ReplyDeletePretty good chances
One of these individuals was a cousin of mine. I do know he is survived by younger brothers, a younger sister, parents and grandparents that all loved him deeply & tried to help him. People should be respectful & keep this in mind when speaking ill of the dead (especially with such unfounded speculation!) The manner of death may certainly be sad and suspicious - but that does not mean his family deserves to be subjected to some of these comments
ReplyDeleteman on the street...your comment would have been more effective if it would have linked to the statistic which shows that most of the Chateau's residents are gainfully employed.
ReplyDeleteNo one deserves to die. But, if you play with fire you will eventually get burned. I personally do not feel one ounce of sympathy for the victims. For their families, yes, but for the victims, no. The Chateau is an absolute cess pool filled with crime, drugs, prostitution, societal leeches and human cockroaches.
ReplyDeleteif you are broke enough to live uptown. blame your own failures. and not the vulnerable who uptown is home to
ReplyDeleteget a better paying job and move downtown if you dont like living uptown. stop being a failure in life.
ReplyDeleteIve Actually Stayed there, it was a way for me to get off the streets. This is a Poorly kept up SRO(Single room Occupancy) Sadly I wish for it To stay only because lack of speaking there is nothing to replace it. i Believe in harm reduction, and this is the best way to keep alot of the violence off the streets, Close down one of these in uptown youll have Even more adults with onset mental Illness running the streets, so regardless of how they died I prefer having Low income SRO's In lakeview becuse it keeps most of the crazy off the streets
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