The process of redeveloping the Cabrini-Green housing project began 25 years ago. On Friday, the ground was finally broken on the last phase of work. The development will include 99 units ...

Chicago’s most notorious housing project was demolished March 30, but its ties to politics and Hollywood won’t be forgotten. (Photo: Cooley High). The Cabrini-Green Housing Projects was a ...

But in the spring of 1981, a wave of shootings and homicides in the old Cabrini-Green Housing Project on the near North Side caught her attention. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED ...

She spoke to the developer and the very first person, to move from Cabrini-Green into one of the new buildings that replaced the projects. In 2001, Betty Flake was a single parent with three ...

But even as more and more families became stuck in the projects for lack of better housing opportunities, Cabrini-Green and other developments became home over time. The story of Cabrini-Green ...

Those are the numbers behind one of the most well-known, and perhaps notorious, public housing projects in Chicago. Cabrini Green was, for many, a symbol of racist housing policies, crime and ...

Slow sales at Mr. Holsten's project, called Parkside at Old Town Square, will make it tougher for city officials to meet that goal even at Cabrini-Green, a prime location at Division and Orleans ...

Baig grew up in Rogers Park on Chicago’s north side, in a Pakistani Muslim household a few miles from the site of the Cabrini-Green public housing projects. The last tower was leveled in 2011.

Those lights, which will be visible 7pm–1am every night for the next few weeks until the building’s demolition is complete, are part of “Project Cabrini Green”, a collaboration between ...

Set in the high-rises of the Cabrini-Green housing project in 1992, when the beleaguered complex’s decline was palpable, it sounds like a recipe for doleful poverty-gazing. But in Windy City ...

The process of redeveloping the Cabrini Green housing project began 25 years ago. On Friday, the ground was finally broken on the last phase of work. The development will include 99 units ...