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Julia C. Lathrop Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located along the line between the Lincoln Park and North Center neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Bucktown and Roscoe Village.
ABLA Homes (Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts, and Grace Abbott Homes) was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing development that comprised four separate public housing projects on the Near-West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for the names of the four different housing developments that ...
Like all the other housing projects, Wentworth experienced a sharp increase in crime, mainly due to drugs and violent street gangs. The Gangster Disciples dominated all of the buildings in Wentworth in the early 1990s.The project was one of many CHA developments that was regularly swept by Chicago Housing Authority Police Department , as it was ...
Tyrone Muhammad, 53, a former enforcer for the Gangster Disciples who did 20 years in state prison, now runs a violence prevention program in Chicago’s inner city.
From the late-2000s to early 2010s, Parkway was the center of gang shootings mostly amongst teenagers and young adults. Tenants of Parkway and community leaders contested the crime wave that came after CHA demolished the drug-infested Robert Taylor Homes, nicknamed the "Calumet Buildings" which were once located at 6217 S. Calumet Ave.
The materials shed light, too, on the gang’s expanding presence and criminal activities across multiple states. It comes after Homeland Security officials were warned in an internal department ...
Stateway Gardens was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway just north of the former Robert Taylor Homes, and part of the State Street Corridor that also included Dearborn Homes, Harold Ickes Homes and Hillard Homes.
Chicago was in the midst of a tumultuous summer beset by the pandemic and violent protests when Carlton Weekly, a reputed gang member who rapped under the name FBG Duck, came to the ritzy Gold ...