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Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource--it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2019Harper Paperbacks · 400 pages · 9780062235077
- Other · English · 2018HarperCollins Canada, Limited · 400 pages · 9780062235084
- Other · English · 2018HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio · 1 pages · 9781538498606
- Other · English · 2018Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · 384 pages · 9780062235060
Race relationsLow-income housingCabrini-Green High Impact ProgramSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansHousingPublic housingCabrini-Green Homes (Chicago, Ill.)
