A demonstration outside the Cabrini-Green row houses on Sept. 9, 2005. (Credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Housing Authority is relocating 33 families living in row houses at what remains of the Cabrini-Green public housing development.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Dave Marsett reports, the row houses, which date from 1942, are all that remain of the once-sprawling complex on the city’s Near North Side.
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The CHA says 146 units in the row houses were rehabbed in 2009, leaving 438 units that were not.
Of those 438, only 33 are occupied, and have been deemed “dangerous and no longer suitable for residents.” Thus, the families that live in the units have been given 180-day relocation notices.
A panel of residents, community members and representatives from the CHA will meet to discuss what should happen to the site.
The Frances Cabrini row houses are located between Oak Street on the north and Chicago Avenue on the south, and between Hudson Avenue on the east and Larrabee Street on the west.
The Cabrini-Green development also comprised dozens of high- and mid-rise buildings, and used to stretch from Evergreen Avenue on the north to Chicago Avenue on the south, and from the CTA Brown-Purple Line tracks on the east to Halsted Street on the west.
The last remaining mid-rises, at 364 and 365 W. Oak St., were closed a year ago and demolished this past winter. The last remaining high-rise, at 1230 N. Burling St., closed this year and was torn down in the spring.
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6 Comments
Knock, knock. Anyone Home?? Get the f out! Why should they be relocated? If I decide my 2 flat is going condo, I simply tell the residents their lease will not be renewed. They keep bending over backwards for these parasites.
September 2, 2011 at 7:39 am
Let them move to some of the vacant houses in Englewood. It’s such a nice community, they will feel right at home.
September 2, 2011 at 8:38 am
By “relocated” means the tax payers are going to have to pay a moving company to come in and pack everything and move it for them cause they too shook up and then after the company packs everything up for them they get in their Escalade and drive to the new free place paid for with tax dollars
September 2, 2011 at 10:29 am
This is what I do not get. These people are being provided with basically free housing and yet they have the nerve to protest? How about getting out there and work for a living? They can then decide where to live by paying out of their own pocket.
September 2, 2011 at 1:26 pm
As long as we have these storefront reverends and democratic bleeding heart politicians that will never happen. The news and politicians and fake reverunds will always try to say it is entitlement and they do not have to work or it willbe called slavery all over again. And GOD forbid we drug test these people who do not work yet are always high and / or are getting arrested for possession of drugs. Why are tax payers supporting an illegal habit by these free loaders
September 2, 2011 at 1:32 pm
MY HOUSE IS THIRTY YEARS OLDER THAN CABRINI ,SO WHY ARE THEY IN SUCH BAD SHAPE ? IS IT THE RESIDENTS LACK OF RESPECT FOR THEIR FREE HOUSING ? NO STARVING MARCHERS IN THE PICTURE, SOME LOOK VERY HEALTHY,GUESS WE GIVE THEM ENOUGH FREE FOOD TOO !
September 3, 2011 at 9:36 am