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Cabrini–Green Homes are a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois.The Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were south of Division Street, bordered by Larrabee Street to the west, Orleans Street to the east and Chicago Avenue to the south, with the William Green Homes to the northwest.
The wrecking balls are demolishing the last of Chicago's Cabrini-Green tenement buildings. A couple weeks ago, there were four mid-rise buildings left in one of the nation's most notorious public ...
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.
Cabrini–Green was a neighborhood on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The neighborhood was named after the Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and William Green Homes that once took up most of the area. The buildings were overrun with crime and fell into disrepair.
On the morning of Oct. 13, 1992, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was walking to school with his mother when a gang member’s stray bullet struck and killed the boy on the grounds of the Cabrini-Green ...
More than 20 years ago, Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration promised Cabrini-Green residents they could return to the revitalized neighborhood with thousands of construction jobs and access to ...
The OutLaw Gangster Disciple Nation is a subset of the Gangster Disciples street gang.It was formed in the Chicago Housing Authority's Cabrini-Green public housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the early 1990s, by Gangster Disciple board member and Cabrini resident Charles "Big Chuck" Dorsey. [2]
No longer the place of “Good Times,” Cabrini-Green had become a metonym for the failures of the system. Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s ...