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    Flying home

    Jun 20, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS: JANET BEDNAREK, HISTORY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, OHIO

    In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October 2020, he had been staying in the secure side of the airport, relying on the kindness of strangers to buy him food, sleeping in the terminals and using the many bathroom facilities. It wasn’t until an airport employee asked to see his ID that the jig was up.

    Singh, however, is far from the first to pull off an extended stay. After more than two decades studying the history of airports, there are stories about individuals who have managed

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