Cabrini-Green’s displaced residents aren’t being included in Chicago’s casino plans.
Tag: Cabrini-Green
Posted inFilm
Horror is a sound you can’t stop saying
Philip Glass’s soundtrack for piano, pipe organ, and chorus mirrors the repetition in the summoning spell.
Posted inArts & Culture
Hidden no more
One of my favorite passages in Chicago journalist Michael J. O’Loughlin’s new book, Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear, opens like an old-school joke. A nun named Sister Carol Baltosiewich is sitting in a New York City gay bar and eyeing the men around her, when […]
Posted inMusic
Sound artist and onetime Chicagoan Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe adds new layers to the Candyman story
Folklore can be the ultimate game of telephone. As a historical form of collective communication, it brings communities together while expressing what makes them unique, and the content of its stories changes as newer generations tell them from their own perspectives. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s score for Nia DaCosta’s new film, Candyman, exemplifies how distortion—whether […]
Posted inNews & Politics
‘A city within a city’
Ten years after the last Cabrini-Green high-rise came down, former residents look back at the community that shaped them.
Posted inMusic
Rapper SG Ali carries a torch for Cabrini-Green
Rapper SG Ali makes her label debut with her new single and video, “Drank on the Block.”
Posted inArts & Culture
Her Honor Jane Byrne remembers when the mayor moved to Cabrini
Lookingglass produces the first in J. Nicole Brooks’s planned quartet of Chicago plays.
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Polo G brings the north-side projects of his youth vividly to life on Die a Legend
Rapper Taurus Bartlett, aka Polo G, grew up in Old Town’s Marshall Field Garden Apartments, and he’s channeled the resilience he learned as kid into one of the most durable hip-hop tracks of the year. On “Pop Out” he delivers a vivid hook that indicts the poverty and mayhem in Black communities, but his plaintive, […]
Posted inNews & Politics
How to get rid of a CPS principal
The quest to fire Ogden International’s leader exposes flaws in the disciplinary mechanism.
Posted inNews & Politics
CPS sat on evidence of record falsification for months before removing Ogden principal
Michael Beyer is suing the district for due process violations amid historic merger.
Posted inMusic
Open Mike Eagle teaches the Pitchfork crowd about Chicago public housing
Open Mike Eagle shares some of the research behind his album-length love letter to the Robert Taylor Homes.
Posted inBlogs
Low-income tenants say luxury developer is treating them like ‘bald-headed stepchildren’
Plans for redeveloping Atrium Village now call for segregating affordable housing into a separate, aging building
Posted inBlogs
Pioneering Chicago rapper Sugar Ray Dinke speaks on the legacy of ‘Cabrini Green Rap’
Sugar Ray Dinke performs “Cabrini Green Rap” Tuesday at the Promontory at the book-release party for Ben Austen’s High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.
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In High-Risers, Ben Austen delivers a long-overdue requiem for Cabrini-Green
A new history of the notorious project reminds us why public housing mattered to the people who lived there—and why it matters still.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Chris Kennedy got it right: people of color are being pushed out of Chicago intentionally
The gubernatorial candidate nailed the whole point of Mayors Daley and Emanuel’s economic development programs.