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Bookmark or Share- Inside Cabrini-Green, Chicago's Infamous Housing FailureBy Morgan Dunn | Edited By John Kuroski. Published November 12, 2023. Updated December 6, 2023. Cabrini-Green was an example of what a public housing project could be, but became so neglected that it was used as the setting for the horror movie Candyman. It wasn’t supposed to end like this.
- Cabrini-Green | Chicago Public Housing, Urban Renewal & HistoryCabrini-Green, public housing development in Chicago, Illinois. Cabrini-Green was once a model of successful public housing, but poor planning, physical deterioration, and managerial neglect, coupled with gang violence, drugs, and chronic unemployment, turned it into a national symbol of urban.
- Cabrini–Green Homes - WikipediaCabrini–Green Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were south of Division Street, bordered by Larrabee Street to the west, Orleans Street to the east and Chicago Avenue to the south, with the William Green Homes to the ...
- The Towers Came Down, and With Them the Promise of Public HousingBuilt in stages beginning in the 1940s on Chicago’s Near North Side, Cabrini-Green consisted of barracks-style rowhouses and 23 towers. When Ricks arrived, more than a third of the 3,600 units...
- Cabrini-Green - Encyclopedia of ChicagoCabrini-Green. Frances Cabrini Homes, c.1942. Neighborhood in the Near North Community Area. Formerly “Swede Town” and then “Little Hell,” the site of the Cabrini-Green public housing complex was notorious in the early twentieth century for its inhabitants' poverty and dilapidated buildings.
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