Housing Projects

The Grace Abbott Homes were the fourth installation within the notorious “ABLA” housing project area on Chicago’s Near West Side.  This project was a rather …

The Rockwell Gardens housing project began construction in the year 1958 among several other projects in the Near West Side community like the ABLA projects …

The Trumbull Park Homes are one of the first public housing projects built in Chicago.  The buildings were constructed in the year 1938 with 55 …

A quick note to the reader:  This is the set of projects that could be seen directly across the Dan Ryan Expressway from the White …

In the year 1959 there were big plans to build to largest public housing project in the world right here in Chicago.  These projects would …

The Robert Brooks Homes was the second buildup within the “ABLA” housing projects complex in the Near West Side neighborhood.  After the Jane Addams Homes …

In the year 1963 Bertrand Goldberg had a grand vision to construct a public housing project that was unlike any of the other high rises …

The Racine Courts were built in the Washington Heights neighborhood in 1951 as the neighborhood was transitioning from white to black.  The projects were built …

These public housing projects began construction in 1950 in the Douglas neighborhood in the heart of Bronzeville.  The projects were designed by William Keck as …

The history of these grounds has quite an ironic history and a history of racial strife.  In my Greater Grand Crossing history I get into …