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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.
In recent decades, the Julia C. Lathrop homes have been subject to many of the same problems of increasing crime as other housing projects in Chicago, including narcotics trafficking and gang activity. The housing project was dominated by the Latin Kings street gang. [10] [11] [12]
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 ...
"It's using gangs as scapegoats, which for many people means young Black and brown people, as the root cause, as opposed to historic disinvestment from our neighborhoods," one expert said.
A TDA gang member was released by a Chicago judge despite a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain him — just a month before he was charged in a violent jewelry store heist ...
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.
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.
Officers within Chicago's Police Department -- the second largest in the country -- have been given intel materials in recent months alerting them to the slew of tattoos the violent prison gang ...