CHICAGO -- A prestigious cheerleading team from Kankakee ended up sleeping on the floor of a schoolâafter a charter bus company out of Chicago's south suburbs took their money and sent no bus.The cheerleaders turned to CBS News Chicago for helpâand some disturbing information was discovered about how the girls ended up stranded.
'Bus company operator Samuel Parks even provided phone numbers for a replacement busâwhich were disconnected. The team begged with Parks via text to helpâemphasizing that the cheerleaders were sitting stranded.Parks never answered Billings' calls.'I called over 100 times from my number, another number, our treasurer called over 50-60 times. I had another person call,' Billings said. 'He never reached back to us.