The Last Stateway Gardens Highrise Demolition, Pt. 7

[Xboxfanatic1999]

fuck chuck norris's testicles, those are the DragonBorn's testicles!!

[vincentv008]

You see how strong is taht building, and stupid fucks wanna tell us Wtc is totaly crashed by an Airplane!? And a small fire!! WTF?

[blackninjamonkey1]

C4 anyone?

[dane774]

Looks like a waste of a good building.

[henryb8780]

they should plug that bitch with a grenade lol

[remoman]

how long did it take to level this building with the ball?

[artistmac]

About two months overall. They probably could have done it faster, but the demolition of this highrise just "happened" to coincide with the period between our 2007 mayoral/aldermanic primaries and the actual election.

[wildreams]

Looks like a pretty inefficient way to take down a building.

[artistmac]

With a busy commuter rail line right next to it and an even busier expressway a block away, implosion wasn't an option at Robert Taylor and Stateway Gardens like it was on the CHA's four lakefront highrises in 1998.

[geocam2]

Lyndon Johnson thought poor people needed housing. It turns out that poor people need skills and jobs, and they can find their own housing. Concentrating the poor in these high-rise hell-holes was a public policy disaster.

[artistmac]

Construction of public housing high-rises had pretty much ground to a halt by the time Lyndon Johnson became President. What did happen during his term were changes in how rent was charged that caused working-class project residents to leave; it was cheaper for them to buy a house than pay rent based on a percentage of their income. My next-door neighbors (a wonderful family) were one of them.

[kippis05]

I heard the CHA is replacing these high-rises with mixed-income housing.. It is unfortunate for all the people who lived there that it closed, but at least it will give a fresh ultimatum to mixed-income housing. Let's just hope that everything ends well.

[tamiasthechipmunk]

Not really unfortunate. The projects were a complete failure as it made the people who lived in them poorer, and made crime, drugs, and urban blight even worse. Having lived in the Chicago area for a time and seeing these projects, I for one am glad to see them come down. The mixed income developments are a much better replacement.