Cabrini–Green Homes - Wikipedia Among Chicago's public housing projects, Cabrini–Green became the most widely known and publicized, both locally and nationally, surpassing others such as the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens on the South Side, and Rockwell Gardens and the Henry Horner Homes on the West Side
Inside Cabrini-Green, Chicagos Infamous Housing Failure Built in the mid-1900s for mixed-income residents, Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project became so run-down and dangerous that it was demolished in 2011 Before the Cabrini-Green development was built, the neighborhood was known as "Little Hell "
Cabrini Green - Chicago Gang History These projects were built on cursed grounds from the start, as the Cabrini Green section was formerly known as “Little Hell” since the late 1860s The name was fitting because this was Chicago’s first slum, first gangster neighborhood and first all-around hell hole in the city
Former Cabrini Green Site Set To Get Over 700 New Housing Units The Parkside Phase 5 project will bring 99 apartments across four buildings in the former Cabrini Green area, according to the housing authority Three of the buildings will be three-story walk-up buildings, while the fourth one will be an eight-story mid-rise
Cabrini-Green | Chicago Public Housing, Urban Renewal History . . . 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 blight and failed housing policy
Cabrini Green Housing Project, Chicago, Illinois (1942 -2009) - Blackpast 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
Updated Master Plan Revealed For Cabrini Green Redevelopment The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) has unveiled a finalized master plan for the redevelopment of the former Cabrini Green sites on the Near North Side Earlier this year, we covered three proposed development schemes with varying densities presented to the community
Cabrini-Green - Encyclopedia of Chicago Racial segregation overtook Cabrini-Green by the early 1960s The large new apartments and large swaths of recreation space failed to mend the area's poverty The difficulty blacks had finding better, affordable housing gave Cabrini-Green a permanent population