Cabrini-Green (Chicago, Illinois)

 place with historical importance, housing services, public housing estate

Cabrini-Green was a public housing development on Chicago's North Side, bordered by Evergreen Avenue, Sedgwick Street, Chicago Avenue, and Larrabee Street. At its height, Cabrini-Green is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) housing project with multiple buildings. At one time, it was was home to 20,000 people, living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings. Over the years, gang violence and the city's neglect created terrible conditions for the residents, and the name "Cabrini-Green" became symbolic of the problems associated with public housing in the United States.

As of 2010, only about 500 residents remain. All but four of the buildings have been razed as part of the CHA's "Plan for Transformation," and the whole neighborhood is being redeveloped into a combination of high-rise buildings and row houses, with the stated goal of creating a mixed-income neighborhood with some units reserved for public housing tenants. The plan, and the way it is being implemented, has proven to be controversial.

Cabrini-Green was the setting for the film Candyman, made in 1992.

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