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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.
2007 photograph of the last remaining building of the Stateway Gardens public housing project preparing for demolition. In 1996, demolition of Cabrini–Green began. This marked the start of what eventually came to be known as the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation. One year later, demolition began at the Robert Taylor Homes ...
From the late-2000s to early 2010s, Parkway was the center of gang shootings mostly amongst teenagers and young adults. Tenants of Parkway and community leaders contested the crime wave that came after CHA demolished the drug-infested Robert Taylor Homes, nicknamed the "Calumet Buildings" which were once located at 6217 S. Calumet Ave.
Raymond Hilliard Homes (Renovated 2006) Robert Taylor Homes (Demolition completed March 2007) Rockwell Gardens (Demolition completed 2006) Stateway Gardens (Demolition completed June 2007) Trumbull Park Homes (Renovated 2008) Wentworth Gardens (Renovated 2009) Washington Park Homes (demolished 2002) Peoria. Taft Homes; Harrison Homes; Sterling ...
Legends South, formerly Robert Taylor Homes, is a neighborhood located in the Grand Boulevard Community Area on the South side of Chicago, Illinois. The neighborhood used to be named after the Chicago housing development, Robert Taylor Homes, that once took up most of the area. The buildings were overrun with crime and fell into disrepair.
Demolition permits are in the works for 209, 211 and 217 Angel St., Providence, three houses on a busy street near Brown University and Wheeler School, and it's not clear why they're targeted or ...
Whereas the first 89 included grand, gabled homes built before 1919, with sweeping porches and staircases, the nearly 100 more added to the list are in 12 multi-unit infantry barracks along Pope ...
Robert Taylor Homes: Bronzeville (South Side) 1960–62: Named for the first African American chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority Robert Rochon Taylor, consisted of 28 16–story high rises, totaling 4, 415 units; demolished between 1998–2007.