How the Surge in AI Indirectly Caused an Entire Neighborhood to go Abandoned

Thank you Stringer media for walking through the home I grew up in, and letting me see it another time on the inside. My parents left the neighborhood in 1985, it was called Roppolo Estates, and they were custom homes built by Roppolo Builders. I am so sad to see this neighborhood destroyed, my heart goes out to all the people who lived there.😪

This is not only sad but it teaches our kids that no matter how hard you work some greedy corrupt corporations can come take it all away.

As a person who is living in a old drafty 1940's house that is on disability SS and cannot afford to get my home better windows and insulation, it enrages me that the new owners (AI) corporation won't save and donate the items from these homes. I could cry watching this knowing how I'd be ever so thankful to receive some. What I give for the kitchen cabinets from some of these homes.. Give to Habitat home Restore for God's sake.

This is exactly why it is so important for everyone to stand against corruption in the government.

A mansion built in 1891 torn down for a warehouse. That breaks my heart

Boycott the company that stole that neighborhood

why do warehouses that literally can be anywhere, want to be built in family neighborhoods? there is more to this evil than one can imagine.

This makes me want to cry. Not only did they lose their homes, they loose their community, friends. The kids have to move in the middle of the school year. Just outrageous!

The trauma of losing your home and your neighborhood can never be bought to replace their pain

Ps When a house is no longer a home or loved..it dies. We can live in a house for many years & walls still stand.But as soon as its abandoned it rapidly decays & dies

This really saddens me because who knows? Maybe one day my neighborhood might become like this. Watching those trees being torn down is also really sad…

This is so very heartbreaking to me. These are not just a group of houses, these are lives. Families who grew up together. They shared holidays, and walked their dogs on the streets. They looked out for each other. There were Christmas decorations, and kids who came home from school to their parents.and now it is all gone. All of it. The trees are gone. The lives are gone. This completely breaks my heart on so many levels. I can imagine people picking out their paint colors, and their ceiling fans, expecting to live out their lives in the home they have invested so very much in. And now it is all gone. I am really heartbroken to see this

This actually reduced me to tears! Where does the GREED end? It makes me think about other beloved homes destroyed in the name of GREED. Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii comes quickly to mind.

My family owned a trucking company in Cgo. It sat on 5 acres. We built the building along with a small private hotel for the drivers. It was about ten years old. One day the powers that be decided they wanted to make an Auto Row because car dealers generate so much sales tax for the city. All the businesses in the area were forced to sell and they were all demolished. Our company operated in all the big midwest cities. Chicago was hands down the most corrupt.

The house at 0:07 with the boarded garage belonged to a family that went to the same church as mine. They would always thrown a Christmas party every year, along with inviting my family over since we lived in the same town. Sad to see it go. Almost feels like my a part of my childhood is going away. In the beginning you described it well, the village has tried to eliminate this neighborhood over and over again. People being given 1 million dollars for their property is likely why some of them agreed to this. And after Covid, we don’t know everyone’s situations, some people may have needed the money. But to those whom didn’t want to move, it’s heartbreaking.

My father designed and built our family home at 701 Roppolo drive the last house on the right on Roppolo. The older home you are in is Martha Dietrich's home that was moved from the original Ohare (Orchard ) airport property. We were one of the original owners along with the Cocomice, Baileys, Robacks, Allen's, Halls, Horvath, Garry's, Millers, Schmidt and so many more families.

As someone who lives in a neighborhood that just had two new warehouses built next to us, this unlocked a new fear that someday we’ll be pushed out like this too

THERE IS SO MUCH LAND, RESOURCES AND SKILLED BUILDERS THERE IS NO REASON ANYONE SHOULD BE HOMELESS OR HUNGRY. THE SYSTEM ISN'T BROKEN, IT IS FIXED.

This is an ongoing endeavor in my town , the local authorities are in cahoots with the fortune five hundred companies along with the ""we want to buy your house""" crowd , ex cops who are now in the real eastate business , go around strong arming citizens with code violations etc, until the elderly are forced to sell or worse , many are simply forclosed on .

This is a testament to GREED.