Ten years after the last Cabrini-Green high-rise came down, former residents look back at the community that shaped them.
Tag: Plan for Transformation
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Residents reflect on rehabbed Lathrop Homes
“I suffered too much to live here.”
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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.
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National Public Housing Museum’s new show informs, memorializes, but doesn’t point fingers
The museum, slated to open on the west side in 2018, gives audiences a taste of its curatorial approach at Archeworks
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The Plan for Transformation has transformed Chicago’s built environment
Over the last decade, photographer David Schalliol has been diligently documenting the demolition and reconstruction of the city’s public housing. Selections from the series are now on display as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
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Where does the Chicago Architecture Biennial go next?
The current edition of the festival poses two possible directions its organizers can take.
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The National Public Housing Museum’s long journey home
After 20 years of battling for its building, the nascent institution’s most significant challenges lie ahead.
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The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works
Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.
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Former LeClaire Courts residents are still fighting to go home
The CHA promised right of return. But seven years later the land is still undeveloped.
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Mayor Emanuel tries to sink CHA accountability ordinance that would force him to share power
The “Keeping the Promise” ordinance would grant the City Council considerable authority over the city’s housing authority.
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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.
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Racial integration is possible in Chicago
In a city with a sordid history of segregation, there are beacons of light and reasons to be thankful
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Afternoon news update
Afternoon news update: While the mayor doesn’t want to share information, some Facebook users don’t want him to privatize any more assets. Meanwhile, it may get harder to protest parking tickets.
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For all those lies that you told, boy
So that’s why the CHA’s Plan for Transformation is taking so long.