Squatting woman's shrine to an unrequited love removed from house

Police in the Buffalo Grove suburb of Chicago have advised that a woman be moved out of a house that no one gave her permission to sleep in and take her love shrine with her. On Feb. 23, officers received a call from a man who owns a home in Checker Drive as an investment, who said he was selling the property, but had discovered a major hindrance:

A woman had, without his knowledge, moved into the home. She had stocked his refrigerator and slept in his bed. It appeared that the woman "has been residing here for a while," the officer wrote in the report. She was not present at the time, but had left a stack of mail addressed to her. The woman had unlatched the garage door from the opener, allowing her to lift and close it manually.



An investigating officer found "a romantic interest/shrine," seemingly built in honour of an unrequited love. The owner knew who the shrine's subject was: a subcontractor the owner had hired to work on his house as he prepared to sell it. Once contacted, the subcontractor said the woman was his former business partner, who also desired to be his romantic partner. The subcontractor said he did not feel the same way and had removed her from his business.

While they were connected, though, she would sometimes visit him while he was working at this house. He said the woman, who he described as having "some emotional problems," had also lost her home recently. The woman has not been charged in relation to her unannounced move-in. The police recommended that the owner move her out, though, by placing her mail, her food and her shrine outside.