Barry White, the Chicken Lady and the long road home: How a Cook County sheriff’s initiative reunited a missing man with his family
by John Keilman, Chicago Tribune
Dec 02, 2021
4 minutes
CHICAGO — A tollway oasis might sound like a strange setting in which to begin a story of a family reunion, but it was there, two years ago, that outreach workers for the Cook County sheriff’s office encountered a man with a hard-to-believe name and a profound array of challenges.
His name was Barry White and he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Eight months earlier, he had gone off his medication and left his family behind in Memphis, Tennessee, wandering the country in an odyssey whose chapters usually ended in an encounter with the police, a short stay in a shelter and a bus ticket out of town.
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