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Altgeld Gardens Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the border of Chicago and Riverdale, Illinois. The residents are 97% African-American according to the 2000 United States Census. [ 1] Built between 1944 and 1945 with 1,498 units, the development ...
Lurie Garden. / 41.88139°N 87.62194°W / 41.88139; -87.62194. Lurie Garden is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by GGN ( Gustafson Guthrie Nichol ), Piet Oudolf, and Robert Israel, [3] it opened on July 16, 2004.
Headquarters. 1200 W. 35th Street Pl. Chicago, Illinois 60608. United States [1] Founders. Erika Allen, Laurell Sims. Website. urbangrowerscollective .org. Urban Growers Collective is a non-profit organization that builds urban farms, gardens, and provides fresh foods primarily in underprivileged areas in the West and South Side of Chicago. [2]
A community garden is any piece of land gardened by a group of people. [3] The majority of gardens in community gardening programs are collections of individual garden plots, frequently between 3 m × 3 m (9.8 ft × 9.8 ft) and 6 m × 6 m (20 ft × 20 ft). This holds true whether they are sponsored by public agencies, city departments, large ...
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, commonly known as O'Block, is an apartment complex in Greater Grand Crossing, on the border of Woodlawn and Washington Park, [ 2] on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The complex was built from 1950 to 1955; architect Henry K. Holsman, who planned several of Chicago's affordable housing developments, designed ...
Overview. Cabrini–Green was composed of 10 sections built over a 20-year period: the Frances Cabrini Rowhouses (586 units in 1942), Cabrini Extension North and Cabrini Extension South (1,925 units in 1957), and the William Green Homes (1,096 units in 1962) (see Chronology below). As of May 3, 2011, all the high-rise buildings had been demolished.
Riverdale, Chicago. Altgeld Gardens Homes is located in Riverdale. / 41.6600°N 87.6100°W / 41.6600; -87.6100. Riverdale is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois and is located on the city's far south side. As originally designated by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago and ...
Community gardening. A community garden is a piece of land gardened or cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively. Normally in community gardens, the land is divided into individual plots. Each individual gardener is responsible for their own plot and the yielding or the production of which belongs to the individual. [1]