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Jul 20, 2023 · The project, which spans a 6.9-acre site, would be done in stages and include a mix of duplexes and apartment buildings, with the tallest one reaching 10 stories, according to the application. The first phase will include 100 public housing, 75 affordable and 75 market-rate units with retail planned for the base of the building, Vaughan said.
Dec 20, 2020 · Feb. 28, 1955. An almost $8 million contract is awarded for the first stage of construction of eight high-rise buildings to the Cabrini public housing complex. The project adds 859 apartments...
Cabrini-Green, public housing development in Chicago, Illinois. Cabrini-Green was once a model of successful public housing, but poor planning, physical deterioration, and managerial neglect, coupled with gang violence, drugs, and chronic unemployment, turned it into a national symbol of urban.
Aug 11, 2021 · NEAR NORTH SIDE — Chicago’s decades-long struggle to redevelop the former site of the Cabrini-Green public housing development came one small step closer to finishing Tuesday after an advisory panel voted to spend another $600 million on the neighborhood over the next 12 years.
Feb 13, 2018 · Seventy acres, 23 buildings, and 15,000 people. Those are the numbers behind one of the most well-known, and perhaps notorious, public housing projects in Chicago. Cabrini Green was, for...
Mar 30, 2021 · Demolition crews knocked down the last Cabrini-Green public housing tower on March 30, 2011. And while smaller row houses still exist, the last tower falling was a potent symbol for the site,...
Feb 6, 2018 · Built in stages beginning in the 1940s on Chicago’s Near North Side, Cabrini-Green consisted of barracks-style rowhouses and 23 towers. When Ricks arrived, more than a third of the 3,600 units...
