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Jan 5, 2010 · With high crime and unemployment Cabrini Green, along with other housing projects in the city, came to symbolize the failure of city government in Chicago (and across the nation) to resolve the problems of the concentrated and isolated urban African American poor.
Dec 20, 2020 · The 1,099 apartments of the William Green Homes — a $17 million project named for the former American Federation of Labor president — are dedicated just north and west of the Cabrini extension...
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 · Those are the numbers behind one of the most well-known, and perhaps notorious, public housing projects in Chicago. Cabrini Green was, for many, a symbol of racist housing policies, crime,...
Feb 13, 2018 · Cabrini Green was, for many, a symbol of racist housing policies, crime and economic struggles. But for the thousands who lived there is was also home, family and community.
Mar 30, 2021 · The Cabrini-Green public housing project, foreground and mid-photo high-rises, is seen against the Chicago skyline in May 1996. Beth A. Keiser/Associated Press. A lone tree stands as the...
