Long before the high-rises turned to rubble, before the neighborhood was named one of Chicago’s Best Places to Live in this magazine, I was a teenager living in Cabrini-Green and had no idea ...

From the moment it was completed, the public housing development known as Cabrini-Green has been captured in still and moving pictures. The development was not only iconic to Chicago, but a symbol ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Once a troubled corner of Chicago, the area that was once home to the Cabrini Green housing project has changed drastically over the years. As the Chicago Housing Authority ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The first high-rise to be demolished in the Cabrini-Green public housing development came down over two decades ago, the last in 2011. The plan to replace the development was ...

On the morning of Oct. 13, 1992, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was walking to school with his mother when a gang member’s stray bullet struck and killed the boy on the grounds of the Cabrini-Green ...

Officials have broken ground on Parkside 5, a 99-unit mixed-income development on the former Cabrini-Green public housing ...

The redevelopment of Cabrini-Green is more than a decade behind schedule. The Chicago Housing Authority has yet to redevelop a number of sites where Cabrini buildings once stood. Richard’s plan ...

Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Few projects stand out in the American imagination like Chicago’s Cabrini-Green. Built at the peak of Modernism’s ...

Alone, of course, she enters a men’s public restroom at Cabrini-Green Homes, which in real life was Chicago’s most infamous public housing complex. Decades before writer-director Bernard Rose ...

Baig grew up in Rogers Park on Chicago’s north side, in a Pakistani Muslim household a few miles from the site of the Cabrini-Green public housing projects. The last tower was leveled in 2011.

Chicago has lived in so many shadows, for so long. One is the legacy of the Cabrini-Green towers, now home to several patchwork blocks including some mixed-income housing; a Target; a lot of other ...