Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.
Tag: Dearborn Homes
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A wish list for better walking and biking in the Black Metropolis
Transit advocate Ronnie Matthew Harris wants to eliminate barriers that physically divide Bronzeville.
Posted inBlogs
How a story about the horrors of housing projects became part of a horror movie
On the parallels between a 1987 Reader article and the movie Candyman.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
They Didn’t Think of the Children
D. Bradford Hunt’s study of the Chicago Housing Authority, Blueprint for Disaster, argues that public housing projects like Cabrini-Green failed because they put too many children in hard-to-access towers.