Those folks really knew how to keep their head above water. Where are they now?
(Wall Street Journal) — Annie Ricks and seven of her children moved into the notorious Cabrini-Green Housing Project in 1990 and found things even worse than she feared. “Gunshots all over the place,” she said. “Fights, noise.” Thursday morning, she is scheduled to be the last of 15,000 residents to move out, marking the end […]
Tearin down the ‘jects creatin plush homes My circumstance is between cabrini and love jones Surrounded by hate, yet i love home -Common from Respiration As the last families are moved out of the Cabrini-Green Housing project, the notorious Chicago public housing complex whose name became synonymous with failures of public housing, will be completely […]
(Washington Post) — For decades, Chicago’s Cabrini-Green high-rises – with their fenced-in balconies and horrific high-profile crimes – were a symbol of the failure of public housing in the United States. Their closure this month marks the end of an ugly era. The Cabrini high-rises were, to some, towering testaments to how Chicago public housing […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — It almost seems forlorn in the surrounding emptiness, a 15-story hulk of concrete with telltale, steel-fenced, open-air galleries characteristic of old public housing. This is 1230 Burling — the last Cabrini-Green high-rise standing. “Cabrini, down, but not out. “It’s not just a building. It’s not a place. It’s a feeling. “Now that’s […]