I spent alot of my life staring at the red buildings. I grew up in the white buildings. all during the 60's ....I wondered how life was for those living in the red buildings...did they enjoy the same songs...did they also love the cubs or whitesox....never met or went into those red colored buildings.....but ....they looked exactly like our building...
@makeiteasyable The buildings were built of red brick. The white ones were built of buff-colored brick. And if you go there today, 4 1/2 years later, you'd be hard pressed to find even a tiny piece of debris. It's all grass.
@giftpacker Because you are a complete jerk, I am blocking you, and I am leaving your comment up to show the world what a combination of hate and ignorance looks like.
i miss my home 4352 s.state street.damn shame the thought they did something by tiering down all the project for what and acomplish nothing and they wonder why crime is so bad in the chi back then everything was all good,and now they had to fuck everything up r.i.p robert taylor project
MAN DA PROJECTS KEPT CRIME DOWN ACTUALLY WHEN THEY TORE EM DOWN THEY FORCED GANGS TO RIVAL UP AND SET UP ACROOS THE STREETS OF CHICAGO SO IF THEY WONDER WHY IS SO MUCH CRIME IT COME FRM FORCED SEPERATION THE WAY THEY WERE BUILD IN RELATION 2 EACH OTHER THEY WERE ALL BUILT TO SEPERATE IMPOVERISHED BLACKS IN A CONCENTRATED PRISON BUILDING
state street looks like a big vancant lot but they got condos on 35th street now. now u see white men riding on bikes and u used to see bumbs with cans. its like u dont miss the projects but somewhere in ur heart u kind of do.
I don't think they should tear all projects down but I think they should be monitored better. I also think they should only have a few units insteads of thousands they should have may 15-20 on a site so they're want be too many people. I think the tenents should meet qualification to live in them, like have a job or looking for employment if they can't find a job in the amount of time given then kick them out.
Its sad that people are so mad that these shit holes are torn down. Don't any of you people want something better for your selves. Go get a job and be a man for once in your lives.
This is just sad & disturbing! There could have been many other programs implemented to stop violence & keep these buildings in working order if the city really wanted to. They just chose the easy way out & with that decision they displaced thousands of unfortunate people. What if you grew up in an apt & the owner of your building just didnt care & did nothing to help & they chose to tare down the place that you lived your whole life & where all your memories were? How would you feel?
satellite police station ahhhh that's what I see flashing blue lights I see in some video's I knew it had something to do with police. don't have anything like that here.
It was at the southern end of Robert Taylor, near 54th Street. There was a satellite police station there, and even the COPS were afraid. The upside: traffic on State Street, even in rush hour, was always light. Still is, for the most part.
@artistmac I remember going to work with my dad and he used to pick up loads from an Osco warehouse in Elk Grove and would have to take it to the Conrail yard at 63rd and State.The bridge at 63rd was too low so he would have to get off at 55th and shoot down state to 63rd.The cops would watch him just roll through the red lights on state and they would not do anything about it.
when u Read the history on all da ProJects n ChiCago: well from what I've read it Starts in the 50's when construction began THEN it jumps 2 the 80's when drugs/violence were the main issue - what about the 50's60's & 70's...what was life in the projects liKe B4 the gangs & drugs???...tHe true history OUR true History is being erased !! those buildings have a story & I wanna hear it from BeGinninG 2 END.
@TrentB924 I agree so why the hell do people keep saying life in the Chicago projects was all glamorous before the 80s when criminal activity was already an epidemic wayyyyyyyy before then?
@nem1901 i can give u a lil insight. during the 50s 60s and maybe early 70s black people were moving into these projects for the most part. now construction of these projects actually started around world war 2. they were built o help war families. they were only temporary homes for people who had a hard time gettinn back on there feet. now construction did continue through the 50s. black from the south eventually started to come to chicago lookin for better economic opportunities. the projects
back then were seen as the greatest thing a person could live in. politically the projects were only build in order to kepp all blacks and maybe immgrants in onw whole area. as time went on in the 70s the buildings were not being taken care off and they were already poorly built to begin with. in the 80s and 90s gangs pretty much took over andd reduced it to shit. mothers who lived in there went on to sue the chicago housing authority for poor conditions etc. by the turn of the millinium they
began to tear the projects down. matter of fact thefamily residents of cabrini green jus moved out of the only project building standing jus a couple of months ago. when they relocated the projeects residents thats when crime started to go up. gangs from the projects moved into other gangs' territory in the southside of chicago. i should i know. i live in englewood where majority of those residents were placed.
I agree with you...My mom says the same thing about the term "Projects" whenever we talk about Robert Taylor. However, I would not take anything away from growing up there in the 70's and early 80's. 4947 S. Federal #601 Beethoven. No Regrets!!
what a beautiful sight...the cleansing of the ghetto. sadly, it's not happening fast enough for me. i still get crackheads approaching me at Jewel asking for money for their LINK card...
Crackheads are not only from the Projects. They are also from your neighborhood before the Projects were torn down and Section 8 vouchers were distributed. Think about it.
Not quite. People who got greedy and bought McMansions with ARM's are getting bailed out by the government for buying something they really couldn't afford. Guess who ultimately pays?
developers want the land, the government want the developers money.
the buildings are symbolised by the government as the cause of rapes,murders,crime.Poor servicing helps create that symbol(lifts not maintained etc).This helps justify the demolition.
It's a way to get poor people out the neighbourhood, nothing more.
i cannt even stop thinkni bout it that shit hurt we love our building and to tell the truth they finna build that new shit and let ppl move there they gone get a hold lot of shit started watch ppl aint goin watch what i tell yall and then if they do put ppl back in the new things they building thats good they better put the in they location they put the 22-24,35-39,40-52 all in they areas cause if they dont boi they gone be liek we should have just kept the high risers up.
You liked the Taylors the way they were? I lived there for 11 years and saw it go from okay to unsafe in that short amount of time. The elevators were always broken (my building was 4845) , rapists were always dumping bodies in vacant apartments, people were always being killed and dumped in the incinerators. They needed to be torn down.
yeah i liked the taylors the way they were and i stay in 4946,4947,4950 yall probably dont but thats wat we use 2 our side were iam from was 2 protected before they tore them down and 2 me it was safer then back in the days
4946, 4947, AND 4950 were no safer than any of the other buildings... Wait, maybe they were a lot safer than the Hole. Seriously though, the Robert Taylor HOmes should have been refurbished and reinforced with security around the clock afterwards. Forgive me for my tone but did you live in bubble? The Taylors were never really safe; as time passed the violence went from sticks, bats and brass knuckles to AK-47's.
tru and i aint denining that it wasn't safe but, it's like the goverment..excuse my boldness, didn't give a fuck about them at all ..i just had a dream about the project all i can see what steal shot pictures in my dream and i heard people talking..and now i have a headache ..damn 2 dreams in one day this sucks
I understand were you comin from and respectin what you say but ever body aint the same i like the way they was with all the violence I mean it might not be nothing 2 be liked but thats what i like
You like violence? Why? I don't know what kind of violence you like, really but the violence I'm speaking of actually stunted the growth of children coming up in it. Neither children nor their parents had the freedom to go where they wanted. They had to be back at the buildings (if they were out) by a certain time before the gang wars started and innocents got shot down. You think that's fun?
yeeeeeeeep and my gut feeling is telling me that if they think that it's going to be better? IT NOT AND IT WON'T!! plain simple FACT because THE GOVERMENT WILL START THE PLAY THE SAME KIND OF BULLSHIT GAME LIKE THEY DID back in the day watch mark my word.
It was never meant to get better, Jane. I wish that they hadn't torn them down the way they did (so that the residents would be misplaced...all part of their plan.) I also wish there was something more in the community, post- demolition that would have made our people become more positive. Maybe we wouldn't have the 'project element' in the suburbs now.
I dont even know why they put this shit up on here iam still mad as hell they knocked our shit down 49th vulture city all day the buildings gone but we still here reppin low end all day.The ppl of the state who recommended the projects to get knocked down it was worng i feel like they dont give no fuck we loved our buildings we was too close it was the best thing we every had we learn how to survive quick learned bout street lfe not only street life
if your loved your buildings you wouldve tried to do something to rid that awful place of all the crime happening there. love does not equal neglect, thats why they are gone and thats why i always drive with a smile on the dan ryan knowing they are never comming back :) street life doesnt get you anywhere. educatoin is the way!
dont respond to my message cause i dont come up on here to here comment on what i said i get what you sayin but me and you 2 different ppl and dont get fucked up and that smile get turned to a fron
education goes a short way ...even if u have a degree ..they expect u to be perfect not EQUAL..trust me u scream get an education and i show u a woman that have's a GED or her degree and let's see if she's still able to pull $400 a month for rent and try to get some food in the house..people like u really need to put you food into they shoes.
These are government owned properties, it doesn't matter if you like them or not. What happens in America is based on the majority vote, which is determined by who you put in office. Thank God!, because I might not have moved here if those God forsaken buildings weren't torn down.
seeing this video brings back old memories,I lived in the 5001 building for 6yrs...I took my family out of the projects before they started to tear them down. **THAT WAS THE BEST MOVE I COULD HAVE MADE**
The buildings'condition had deteriorated so much and crime was so out-of-control, most of the residents moved out on their own. It was something like 50% vacant by the time they started tearing them down.
thos pjs strechted from 35th to like 54th, in fact there is more from 22nd to like 31st. I remember getting weed from the building on 35th. It was like a weed store, the pigs never came. They had all different kinds, we hit it up anytime of the day or night
It's absolutely amazing. I never saw it in it's entirety and even though my pjs had 22 buildings, they were nothing like the Robert Taylor Homes. I am glad they are gone, but the pathologies that grew within them are unreal. I can't believe people had to live like that....
Except that nothing was really solved simply by tearing them down. The low-income population of suburban Cook County and the six collar counties has gone up by 100,000 in the last seven years. Three guesses where most of those low-income residents came from. We'll see how it all pans out.
And if the former residents of Robert Taylor and Stateway thought they were isolated in the projects, wait till they try to get from DuPage County to downtown Chicago on $2.00. That'll be a shock.
Tell the major chain retailers that. They're STILL afriad to build there. Even the grocery stores. Even Walgreen's, who will build just about anyplace. In fact, that 1967-vintage strip mall toward the middle of the video had a Walgreen's and a National Food Store, back when National was a big Chicago chain. Now, part of it is the 3rd Ward alderman's office.
Art... My building is in the first frame! In front was 4844 (the police building) and on the right, facing sideways, was mine... 4845. Brings tears to my eyes.
I know the feeling. I am from NYC and even though none of the pjs are being demolish (they make too much money), I can relate. As much as our live shave improved, those brick towers were still our homes....
I spent alot of my life staring at the red buildings. I grew up in the white buildings. all during the 60's ....I wondered how life was for those living in the red buildings...did they enjoy the same songs...did they also love the cubs or whitesox....never met or went into those red colored buildings.....but ....they looked exactly like our building...
egojames007 1 month ago
why red?
makeiteasyable 2 months ago
@makeiteasyable The buildings were built of red brick. The white ones were built of buff-colored brick. And if you go there today, 4 1/2 years later, you'd be hard pressed to find even a tiny piece of debris. It's all grass.
artistmac 2 months ago
its so fucken empty..........damn...it dont even look right
DaOldSchoolRapLova96 3 months ago
Negros should all be shot in the face point blank...
giftpacker 6 months ago
@giftpacker Because you are a complete jerk, I am blocking you, and I am leaving your comment up to show the world what a combination of hate and ignorance looks like.
artistmac 2 months ago
@giftpacker you sound retarded.., get a fuckn clue
nem1901 2 weeks ago
shouldn't have removed them looks a lot cooler with them
rlax106 11 months ago
i miss my home 4352 s.state street.damn shame the thought they did something by tiering down all the project for what and acomplish nothing and they wonder why crime is so bad in the chi back then everything was all good,and now they had to fuck everything up r.i.p robert taylor project
99crazyjay 1 year ago
@uncdentist09 shut the fuck up u ignorant piece of Shit.....
MrPetenice09 1 year ago
There were a lot of Mickey Cobras in Robert Taylor too..
TrentB924 1 year ago
i came from 5201 s federal
deagledafreestyler 1 year ago
MAN DA PROJECTS KEPT CRIME DOWN ACTUALLY WHEN THEY TORE EM DOWN THEY FORCED GANGS TO RIVAL UP AND SET UP ACROOS THE STREETS OF CHICAGO SO IF THEY WONDER WHY IS SO MUCH CRIME IT COME FRM FORCED SEPERATION THE WAY THEY WERE BUILD IN RELATION 2 EACH OTHER THEY WERE ALL BUILT TO SEPERATE IMPOVERISHED BLACKS IN A CONCENTRATED PRISON BUILDING
wetthead69 1 year ago
state street looks like a big vancant lot but they got condos on 35th street now. now u see white men riding on bikes and u used to see bumbs with cans. its like u dont miss the projects but somewhere in ur heart u kind of do.
994alize 1 year ago
I don't think they should tear all projects down but I think they should be monitored better. I also think they should only have a few units insteads of thousands they should have may 15-20 on a site so they're want be too many people. I think the tenents should meet qualification to live in them, like have a job or looking for employment if they can't find a job in the amount of time given then kick them out.
yvette789799 1 year ago
man my auntie lived in the hole a lot of good memeories and fun in the summer there in the hole
houseofjrk 1 year ago
Its sad that people are so mad that these shit holes are torn down. Don't any of you people want something better for your selves. Go get a job and be a man for once in your lives.
dancinontheedge84 1 year ago
This is just sad & disturbing! There could have been many other programs implemented to stop violence & keep these buildings in working order if the city really wanted to. They just chose the easy way out & with that decision they displaced thousands of unfortunate people. What if you grew up in an apt & the owner of your building just didnt care & did nothing to help & they chose to tare down the place that you lived your whole life & where all your memories were? How would you feel?
Brutananadilewski007 2 years ago
satellite police station ahhhh that's what I see flashing blue lights I see in some video's I knew it had something to do with police. don't have anything like that here.
And Thank you!.
Tdawg1978 2 years ago
Whats with this "The Hole"?? info?! pics, why was it so bad? Gangs...
Tdawg1978 2 years ago
It was at the southern end of Robert Taylor, near 54th Street. There was a satellite police station there, and even the COPS were afraid. The upside: traffic on State Street, even in rush hour, was always light. Still is, for the most part.
artistmac 2 years ago
@artistmac I remember going to work with my dad and he used to pick up loads from an Osco warehouse in Elk Grove and would have to take it to the Conrail yard at 63rd and State.The bridge at 63rd was too low so he would have to get off at 55th and shoot down state to 63rd.The cops would watch him just roll through the red lights on state and they would not do anything about it.
thissitesucks74 2 months ago
@thissitesucks74 That was in the 80's
thissitesucks74 2 months ago
The scary question is....where did all the niggers go? I am sure they are robbing a bank or a liquor store right about now.
uncdentist09 1 year ago
@uncdentist09 or probably youtube tough guys like you, dumb ass.
ChicaGOrilla4CHN 1 year ago
@uncdentist09
Actually, we gave them YOUR address - they should be breaking into your trailer any minute now.
mirrenmaniac 1 year ago
I lived in 4022 s. state and the gds ran that bitch 7-4
adubb773 2 years ago
when u Read the history on all da ProJects n ChiCago: well from what I've read it Starts in the 50's when construction began THEN it jumps 2 the 80's when drugs/violence were the main issue - what about the 50's60's & 70's...what was life in the projects liKe B4 the gangs & drugs???...tHe true history OUR true History is being erased !! those buildings have a story & I wanna hear it from BeGinninG 2 END.
nem1901 2 years ago 6
ThAt iS bUllShit SoN....tHE LEsS ProJeCTs tHe beTTer...ChiCago NEEdz a NEw StaRt
WonderBread006 2 years ago
@nem1901
Gangs started forming in the late 50's man... Gangs were in Robert Taylor since before the 80's
TrentB924 1 year ago
@TrentB924 I agree so why the hell do people keep saying life in the Chicago projects was all glamorous before the 80s when criminal activity was already an epidemic wayyyyyyyy before then?
PopCulture20 1 year ago
@nem1901 i can give u a lil insight. during the 50s 60s and maybe early 70s black people were moving into these projects for the most part. now construction of these projects actually started around world war 2. they were built o help war families. they were only temporary homes for people who had a hard time gettinn back on there feet. now construction did continue through the 50s. black from the south eventually started to come to chicago lookin for better economic opportunities. the projects
kasfami 11 months ago
back then were seen as the greatest thing a person could live in. politically the projects were only build in order to kepp all blacks and maybe immgrants in onw whole area. as time went on in the 70s the buildings were not being taken care off and they were already poorly built to begin with. in the 80s and 90s gangs pretty much took over andd reduced it to shit. mothers who lived in there went on to sue the chicago housing authority for poor conditions etc. by the turn of the millinium they
kasfami 11 months ago
began to tear the projects down. matter of fact thefamily residents of cabrini green jus moved out of the only project building standing jus a couple of months ago. when they relocated the projeects residents thats when crime started to go up. gangs from the projects moved into other gangs' territory in the southside of chicago. i should i know. i live in englewood where majority of those residents were placed.
kasfami 11 months ago
i stayed in 4555 s federal taylors allday bdn ran tha taylors gdk
twofacetbgking 2 years ago
4352 apt 507 & 4848 apt 1507
Ilumnye 2 years ago
foes moes lords and gd's
CMONEY773 2 years ago
what gang ran the robert taylors
prockivl 3 years ago
gangster disciples
girondi1 2 years ago
i love robert taylor 4946 s.state st # 1110 beethoven and du'sable i would go back any day
lemonschild 3 years ago
"can i be on your camera????" very nice piece of video making, dude.
mrdeedz1 3 years ago
what was the rationale for the demolition of the buildings other than the obvious high crime rates and poverty?
c2thew 3 years ago
Eerie...
Good video. And interesting debate up there ^^.
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niketmik 3 years ago
We as a people need to take note and go forward we are not lab rats to be used for experimentation, hence the "term "projects"
4500 s State #810 humble beginnings
henryj1975 3 years ago
I agree with you...My mom says the same thing about the term "Projects" whenever we talk about Robert Taylor. However, I would not take anything away from growing up there in the 70's and early 80's. 4947 S. Federal #601 Beethoven. No Regrets!!
kytyria 3 years ago
what a beautiful sight...the cleansing of the ghetto. sadly, it's not happening fast enough for me. i still get crackheads approaching me at Jewel asking for money for their LINK card...
drmagic 3 years ago
they should cleanse dirty white people like you exterminate you bitches
pel324 3 years ago
i'm not white, boy. *LMAO*
drmagic 3 years ago
Crackheads are not only from the Projects. They are also from your neighborhood before the Projects were torn down and Section 8 vouchers were distributed. Think about it.
kytyria 3 years ago
Why the fuck everybody got to be a crackhead? And I guess that makes everyone in your family saints. Stop playing with yoself Willy!
Chocolate4Honey 3 years ago
you showed some foresight in making this videoclip, artistmac. well done.
tigerman8000 3 years ago
4101 S. Federal 1501
bigmilk274 4 years ago 2
oh well. people will have to support themselves now. the freebies are over
roymunson3 4 years ago
Not quite. People who got greedy and bought McMansions with ARM's are getting bailed out by the government for buying something they really couldn't afford. Guess who ultimately pays?
artistmac 3 years ago
yeah i'm straight from down therr get it cracking bitch!!!
flipG08 4 years ago
developers want the land, the government want the developers money.
the buildings are symbolised by the government as the cause of rapes,murders,crime.Poor servicing helps create that symbol(lifts not maintained etc).This helps justify the demolition.
It's a way to get poor people out the neighbourhood, nothing more.
wiki: gentrification
tedted777 4 years ago
i cannt even stop thinkni bout it that shit hurt we love our building and to tell the truth they finna build that new shit and let ppl move there they gone get a hold lot of shit started watch ppl aint goin watch what i tell yall and then if they do put ppl back in the new things they building thats good they better put the in they location they put the 22-24,35-39,40-52 all in they areas cause if they dont boi they gone be liek we should have just kept the high risers up.
vulture49 4 years ago
You liked the Taylors the way they were? I lived there for 11 years and saw it go from okay to unsafe in that short amount of time. The elevators were always broken (my building was 4845) , rapists were always dumping bodies in vacant apartments, people were always being killed and dumped in the incinerators. They needed to be torn down.
Imerica1 4 years ago
yeah i liked the taylors the way they were and i stay in 4946,4947,4950 yall probably dont but thats wat we use 2 our side were iam from was 2 protected before they tore them down and 2 me it was safer then back in the days
vulture49 4 years ago
4946, 4947, AND 4950 were no safer than any of the other buildings... Wait, maybe they were a lot safer than the Hole. Seriously though, the Robert Taylor HOmes should have been refurbished and reinforced with security around the clock afterwards. Forgive me for my tone but did you live in bubble? The Taylors were never really safe; as time passed the violence went from sticks, bats and brass knuckles to AK-47's.
Imerica1 4 years ago
tru and i aint denining that it wasn't safe but, it's like the goverment..excuse my boldness, didn't give a fuck about them at all ..i just had a dream about the project all i can see what steal shot pictures in my dream and i heard people talking..and now i have a headache ..damn 2 dreams in one day this sucks
JANEONELOVE 4 years ago
I understand were you comin from and respectin what you say but ever body aint the same i like the way they was with all the violence I mean it might not be nothing 2 be liked but thats what i like
vulture49 4 years ago
You like violence? Why? I don't know what kind of violence you like, really but the violence I'm speaking of actually stunted the growth of children coming up in it. Neither children nor their parents had the freedom to go where they wanted. They had to be back at the buildings (if they were out) by a certain time before the gang wars started and innocents got shot down. You think that's fun?
Imerica1 4 years ago
true man but do you think this changed the situation or just changed the location? seriously...
ripcabrinigreen 3 years ago
yeeeeeeeep and my gut feeling is telling me that if they think that it's going to be better? IT NOT AND IT WON'T!! plain simple FACT because THE GOVERMENT WILL START THE PLAY THE SAME KIND OF BULLSHIT GAME LIKE THEY DID back in the day watch mark my word.
JANEONELOVE 4 years ago
It was never meant to get better, Jane. I wish that they hadn't torn them down the way they did (so that the residents would be misplaced...all part of their plan.) I also wish there was something more in the community, post- demolition that would have made our people become more positive. Maybe we wouldn't have the 'project element' in the suburbs now.
Imerica1 4 years ago
I dont even know why they put this shit up on here iam still mad as hell they knocked our shit down 49th vulture city all day the buildings gone but we still here reppin low end all day.The ppl of the state who recommended the projects to get knocked down it was worng i feel like they dont give no fuck we loved our buildings we was too close it was the best thing we every had we learn how to survive quick learned bout street lfe not only street life
vulture49 4 years ago
if your loved your buildings you wouldve tried to do something to rid that awful place of all the crime happening there. love does not equal neglect, thats why they are gone and thats why i always drive with a smile on the dan ryan knowing they are never comming back :) street life doesnt get you anywhere. educatoin is the way!
Drope131 4 years ago
dont respond to my message cause i dont come up on here to here comment on what i said i get what you sayin but me and you 2 different ppl and dont get fucked up and that smile get turned to a fron
vulture49 4 years ago
the only people who got fucked were the ones who lost the projects. not me my friend :) learn some grammer while you are at it.
Drope131 4 years ago
education goes a short way ...even if u have a degree ..they expect u to be perfect not EQUAL..trust me u scream get an education and i show u a woman that have's a GED or her degree and let's see if she's still able to pull $400 a month for rent and try to get some food in the house..people like u really need to put you food into they shoes.
JANEONELOVE 4 years ago
if you put the food in thier shoes they wont eat it...but for real these motherfuckers that havent been there need to shut the fuck up
ripcabrinigreen 3 years ago
These are government owned properties, it doesn't matter if you like them or not. What happens in America is based on the majority vote, which is determined by who you put in office. Thank God!, because I might not have moved here if those God forsaken buildings weren't torn down.
derrickbounds 4 years ago 2
seeing this video brings back old memories,I lived in the 5001 building for 6yrs...I took my family out of the projects before they started to tear them down. **THAT WAS THE BEST MOVE I COULD HAVE MADE**
sweettoy23 4 years ago
why did they tear them all down?
wormsoup 4 years ago
The buildings'condition had deteriorated so much and crime was so out-of-control, most of the residents moved out on their own. It was something like 50% vacant by the time they started tearing them down.
artistmac 4 years ago
Thanks, thats interesting. What a shame tho.
wormsoup 4 years ago
i like the now photos much better
motorhead1971 4 years ago
thos pjs strechted from 35th to like 54th, in fact there is more from 22nd to like 31st. I remember getting weed from the building on 35th. It was like a weed store, the pigs never came. They had all different kinds, we hit it up anytime of the day or night
milky1041 4 years ago
i bet...
ripcabrinigreen 3 years ago
Crackar Nigger Coral?
overtime2005 4 years ago
They're gone-GOOD! was nothing but an inner city prison...
musikfanat 4 years ago 9
It's absolutely amazing. I never saw it in it's entirety and even though my pjs had 22 buildings, they were nothing like the Robert Taylor Homes. I am glad they are gone, but the pathologies that grew within them are unreal. I can't believe people had to live like that....
coverdale20 4 years ago
Except that nothing was really solved simply by tearing them down. The low-income population of suburban Cook County and the six collar counties has gone up by 100,000 in the last seven years. Three guesses where most of those low-income residents came from. We'll see how it all pans out.
smithster710 4 years ago
And if the former residents of Robert Taylor and Stateway thought they were isolated in the projects, wait till they try to get from DuPage County to downtown Chicago on $2.00. That'll be a shock.
artistmac 4 years ago
i couldn't agree more. neighborhood is MUCH safer with the projects gone
drmagic 4 years ago
Tell the major chain retailers that. They're STILL afriad to build there. Even the grocery stores. Even Walgreen's, who will build just about anyplace. In fact, that 1967-vintage strip mall toward the middle of the video had a Walgreen's and a National Food Store, back when National was a big Chicago chain. Now, part of it is the 3rd Ward alderman's office.
artistmac 4 years ago
yours is...
ripcabrinigreen 3 years ago
Art... My building is in the first frame! In front was 4844 (the police building) and on the right, facing sideways, was mine... 4845. Brings tears to my eyes.
Imerica1 5 years ago
I know the feeling. I am from NYC and even though none of the pjs are being demolish (they make too much money), I can relate. As much as our live shave improved, those brick towers were still our homes....
coverdale20 4 years ago