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2. Altgeld Gardens Homes - Wikipedia

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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 ]

3. Rosenwald Court Apartments - Wikipedia

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   The housing project was modeled after the Dunbar Apartments in Harlem, New York City, built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1926. [4] In 1981, the Rosenwald Apartment Building received National Register of Historic Places designation. [3] The last residents moved out in 2000, after mismanagement and lack of upkeep made the site uninhabitable.

4. Parkway Garden Homes - Wikipedia

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   Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.

5. Tenement housing in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Chicago Photographed from Ray Knabenshue's Dirigible Air Ship, 1914. Tenement housing in Chicago was established in the late 19th and into the early 20th centuries. [1] A majority of tenement complexes in Chicago were constructed in the interest of using land space and boosting the economy.

6. Powhatan Apartments - Wikipedia

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   The Powhatan or Powhatan Apartments is a 22-story luxury apartment building overlooking Lake Michigan and adjacent to Burnham Park in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. [2] The building was designed by architects Robert De Golyer and Charles L. Morgan. [ 3 ]

7. Robert Taylor Homes - Wikipedia

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   Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The 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.