Chicago's Cabrini-Green Projects To Come Down

Chicago is tearing down the historic and notorious Cabrini-Green projects, to much protest by residents.

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March 2, 2005, 9:00 AM PST

"Housing officials want to relocate Franklin and about 1,400 residents who remain at Cabrini-Green, one of the nation's most notorious public housing projects. For the last five years, the Chicago Housing Authority has been gradually emptying Cabrini-Green as part of a 10-year, $1.6-billion plan to level public housing projects. Similar efforts are underway across the country.

...Cabrini-Green was neither the most crime-ridden of Chicago's housing projects nor its largest, but it became its most notorious, largely because of the viciousness of the crimes that took place there."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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