Bedbugs have made the leap from apartments and homes to some of Chicago’s downtown office buildings and government headquarters.
And late last month, a “government office in the Loop” brought in Meron Kahssai, resident bedbug expert with the Metropolitan Tenants Organization, to educate employees about dealing with bedbugs after the office had an infestation.
It doesn’t matter that offices don’t have beds.
The blood-sucking pests, which are making a comeback nationally, can easily hitch a ride on purses and coats from infested homes or hotels and burrow into furniture and files at work.
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