I take a bike ride through Chicago's notorious CabriniGreen.
Well, not no more. Today you will can see the transformation from Cabrini's past from what you remembered, and is still being redeveloped today.
Only one last occupied city block of CabriniGreen still stands, and that's the Frances Cabrini Row Houses.
Before it's demolition, at its peak, CabriniGreen was home to 15,000 people.
CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) supports several programs dedicated to helping residents
begin a job or advanced their career. In 2019, approximately 1,400 CHA adults were connected to new or better jobs.
Some residents of the old Cabrini Green now live in the newly redeveloped CabriniGreen,
and now call it their new home.
Some units being CHA owned, for the stated goal of creating a mixedincome neighborhood.


Cabrini–Green was composed of 10 sections built over a 20year period: the Frances Cabrini Rowhouses (586 units in 1942), Cabrini Extension North and Cabrini Extension South (1,925 units in 1957), and the William Green Homes (1,096 units in 1962) (see Chronology below). As of May 3, 2011, all the highrise buildings had been demolished. One hundred and fifty of the dilapidated Frances Cabrini Rowhomes (south of Oak Street, north of Chicago Avenue, west of Hudson Avenue, and east of Cambridge Street) have been renovated and remain inhabited.


Neighborhood in the Near North Community Area. Formerly “Swede Town” and then “Little Hell,” the site of the CabriniGreen public housing complex was notorious in the early twentieth century for its inhabitants' poverty and dilapidated buildings. During World War II, the Chicago Housing Authority razed Little Hell and built a lowrise apartment project for war workers, naming it the Frances Cabrini Homes after the first American canonized by the Catholic Church. CHA further transformed the area with the highrise Cabrini Extension (1958) and William Green Homes (1962). The original population of CabriniGreen reflected the area's prior ethnic mix; poor Italians, Irish, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans lived among the war workers and veterans. Racial segregation overtook CabriniGreen by the early 1960s.
The large new apartments and large swaths of recreation space failed to mend the area's poverty. The difficulty blacks had finding better, affordable housing gave CabriniGreen a permanent population. CHA failed to budget money to repair buildings and maintain landscaping as they deteriorated. CabriniGreen's reputation for crime and gangs rivaled Little Hell's. The murders of two white police officers in 1970 and of sevenyearold resident Dantrell Davis in 1992 drew national attention.

Increasing realestate values in the late twentieth century led housing officials to propose replacement of the complex with mixedincome housing. Residents argued however that such a move would displace them permanently, completing the slum removal effort begun with the building of Cabrini Homes half a century earlier.


CABRINIGREEN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini...


CABRINIGREEN REDEVELOPMENT
https://www.gmaconstructiongroup.com/...


PUBLIC HOUSING'S MOST NOTORIOUS FAILURE
https://www.cityjournal.org/html/cab...


Dantrell Davis (7yr. Old Killed)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dantrel...


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