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The YMCA's clientele included people in Cabrini-Green and in Lincoln Park. [64] CBS Chicago 2 stated that the facility was "once credited with breaking down a barrier between families from" different socioeconomic communities. [65] In 2007, the YMCA closed, with the land sold, as Cabrini Green's impoverished community moved away.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Dantrell Davis (July 31, 1985 – October 13, 1992) was an African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered in October 1992. Davis was walking to school with his mother in the Cabrini-Green housing projects when he was accidentally shot by Anthony Garrett, a member of a local street gang who intended to shoot a rival.
The wrecking balls are demolishing the last of Chicago's Cabrini-Green tenement buildings. A couple weeks ago, there were four mid-rise buildings left in one of the nation's most notorious public ...
CHICAGO – On the morning of Oct. 13, 1992, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was walking to school with his mother when a gang member’s stray bullet struck and killed the boy on the grounds of the ...
Bruce Graham, the famous Skidmore, Owings and Merrill architect, lived in a house he himself designed in 1969. [49] Richard Hunt, the famous sculptor, has his studio at 1017 W. Lill Avenue, a decommissioned electrical substation. [50] Bruce Heyman, 30th United States Ambassador to Canada. Heyman is a resident of Lincoln Park. [51]
No longer the place of “Good Times,” Cabrini-Green had become a metonym for the failures of the system. Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s ...
On the morning of Oct. 13, 1992, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was walking to school with his mother when a gang member’s stray bullet struck and killed the boy on the grounds of the Cabrini-Green ...