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Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Dearborn was the first Chicago housing project built after World War II, as housing for blacks on part of the Federal Street slum within the "black belt". [3] It was the start of the Chicago Housing Authority's post-war use of high-rise buildings to accommodate more units at a lower overall cost, [6] and when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.
Julia C. Lathrop Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located along the line between the Lincoln Park and North Center neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Bucktown and Roscoe Village.
The Marshall Field Garden Apartments is a large non-governmental subsidized housing project in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The project occupies two square city blocks and was the largest moderate-income housing development in the U.S. at the time of construction in 1929. Marshall Field Garden Apartments has 628 units ...
Constructed between 1961 and 1963, The buildings were completed in March 1963; consisting of six buildings. The first three buildings (1132 E. 42nd Street, 1130 E. 41st Street and 4155 S. Lake Park Avenue) sat 16–stories high in a u–shape cluster (also known as the Horseshoe buildings) [3] bordered by Lake Park Avenue to the west and Oakenwald Avenue to the east.
Current and former public housing projects in Chicago, Illinois. Pages in category "Public housing in Chicago" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.