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Home » housing projects

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Posted inArts & Culture

Jasmon Drain joins the ranks of Chicago’s greatest authors

by Dmitry Samarov February 25, 2020August 18, 2021

His debut collection, Stateway’s Garden, captures the city’s unique, ugly beauty.

Posted inFilm

History repeats itself over and over again at the African Diaspora Film Festival

by Andrea Gronvall June 8, 2018August 18, 2021

The aftershocks of the slave trade echo from Benin to Hungary to Cuba to Cabrini Green.

Posted inBlogs

How a story about the horrors of housing projects became part of a horror movie

by Steve Bogira March 14, 2014March 16, 2022

On the parallels between a 1987 Reader article and the movie Candyman.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Mon 1/28: Off the Record, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation

by Janey Lee January 28, 2013August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, January 28, 2013

Dancing at Regina Cooper's family Easter get together in Cabrini-Green, ca. 1988/89
Posted inArts & Culture

“The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation” considers public housing as artistic training ground

by Sam Worley November 20, 2012August 19, 2021

The National Public Housing Museum presents “The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation”

Posted inBlogs

The end of segregation?

by Steve Bogira February 2, 2012August 19, 2021

Things look rosier in a new study than they do at 55th and Ashland

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