The headquarters ofthe Chicago police department is on the South Side, a couple of blocks from where the White Sox play and not far from where the Robert Taylor Homes, once the country’s largest housing project, stood until they were torn down nearly a decade ago. On the day I visit ...
Like others, he is concerned that as neighborhoods gentrify, the poor are being squeezed out and pushed into outlying neighborhoods and suburbs, sometimes creating conflict with other residents. Former inhabitants of the Robert Taylor and Cabrini-Greene housing projects, for instance, are now given r...
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This research examines the effects of population displacement after the demolition of the Robert Taylor Homes (in Chicago's 2nd Police District) on crime in neighboring police districts that serve impoverished, racially segregated, high-crime neighborhoods where many former residents relocated. The ...
The album finds warmth and transcendence in the stories of those displaced in the demolition of the Robert Taylor Homes, the infamously neglected public housing project on Chicago’s South Side. “I promise you I will never fit in your descriptions,” he raps on “Brick Body Complex,” ...
Skeptical graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) befriends Anne-Marie McCoy (Vanessa Williams) while researching superstitions in a housing project on Chicago's Near North Side. From Anne-Marie, Helen learns about the Candyman (Tony Todd), a knife-wielding figure of urban legend that som...
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“We’re not going back, like ever, ever, ever,” said Polis, a self-described “Swiftie,” referencing the Taylor Swift song “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Lead Art: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis holds the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership as he speak...