Housing Projects

In the year 1944 the Chicago Housing Authority decided to build another public housing complex in this area to house African Americans because the nearby …

The Leclaire Courts were the most unique public housing projects in Chicago history because these were the first projects that were built on the outer …

The Madden Park Homes were the last public housing project to be completed in Chicago as they were complete in the year 1970.  Although public …

The Ogden Courts public housing project was the only project built in the North Lawndale neighborhood.  In the year 1953 it was noticed that North …

The Jane Addams Homes were one of the first Chicago Housing Authority projects to be built in the late 1930s when the city decided to …

This project complex was one of CHA’s later developments that were built as two 7 story mid-rise towers in the year 1961.  These were basically …

These projects were built in 1942 and completed in 1943 in the racially conflicting community of Roseland that was having conflicts between blacks and whites.  …

The Loomis Courts housing project was the third set of projects built within the “ABLA” housing projects cluster that was built between 1938 and 1961.  …

These projects were constructed in the year 1942 and complete in December of that year.  These projects were built in the all-white Little Village neighborhood …