Patrick Angelo, Chicago-Area Man, Brings Food And Blankets To Lower Wacker Drive's Homeless (VIDEO)

Photo by WGN
Photo by WGN

For 12 years, the homeless population that gathers along Lower Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago has enjoyed regular visits from an angel. An angel by the name of Patrick.
According to a recent feature on WGN’s “Chicago’s Very Own,” oral surgeon Patrick Angelo found himself on Lower Wacker Drive one night over a decade ago and discovered a part of the city he says he never even knew existed — “basically a city of people down there.”
He began bringing food, blankets and other items — like hand warmers, socks and more — to the homeless people who live along Lower Wacker and now drives back there twice a week. While he told WGN he initially tried to connect the homeless there to shelters or treatment centers, he found his advice was rarely accepted.
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