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Cabrini–Green Homes are a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois.The Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were south of Division Street, bordered by Larrabee Street to the west, Orleans Street to the east and Chicago Avenue to the south, with the William Green Homes to the northwest.
Cabrini–Green was a neighborhood on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The neighborhood was named after the Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and William Green Homes that once took up most of the area. The buildings were overrun with crime and fell into disrepair.
The final Cabrini-Green tower was demolished in 2011. Following the conclusion of a civil lawsuit, the former Cabrini-Green site was transformed and revitalized with new upscale development spurred by the growth of Old Town to the north, and the already affluent areas of the Gold Coast to the east and River North to the south.
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 ...
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 ...
Cabrini–Green Homes: Near North Side: 1942–45; 1957–62: Named for Italian nun Frances Cabrini and William Green. Consisted of 3,607 units, William Homes and Cabrini Extensions (demolished; 1995–2011), Francis Cabrini row houses (150 of 586 renovated; 2009–11). Clarence Darrow Homes: Bronzeville (South Side) 1961–62
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 ...
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