Mainstreet USA Chicago, Illinois - 27 Aug 07 - Part 2

Al Jazeera's Dave Marash explores Cabrini Green, a notorious public housing development on the north side of Chicago now largely pulled down, and talks to residents, many of whom allege they were hastily forced into other slums, and denied social services to get a leg up in society.

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[nordgreaser]

Good times? meaning murders and little innocent kids being terroized?

[ChiTownfool]

l live Uptown on Wilson fool

[shomaneture]

Can someone say GENTRIFICATION!

[nimbledagreat]

Yep, they fail to show people the $350,000 + price of the new buildings. Police now patrol the area deep to protect the rich white folks that are now living down there. I even seen a white lady walkin her dog down there without any fear :-0 The plan is to open that area up to the 'upper' middle class folk so they can be close there work downtown instead of livin large 30miles away in the suburbs. This is present day gentrification...like Furious was talkin about...lol

[figbli]

ChiTownFOOL alright. Acting like ur livin there. U probably live in DuPage out in Wheaton. You'd piss yourself driving past Cabrini and duck down like a bitch ...I know many like you. Selling crack! You'd be smokin it to write what you wrote. You make ajoke out of something very serious. Lots of people lost their homes but you wouldn't get that livin out in the burbs. Go back to WNHS and be 'gangsta' there. They'll believe your stories, they're naive enough to believe anything, THUG!

[WorldsgreatestDRBK]

i hate to be negative, but anyone of any race bill think differently about eachothers incomes and families 4 the next 100 years.hopefully we will all be same skin color by then. i do like how the cities r thinking positive and trying to make mixed neighborhoods though. Its just hard 2 do that in big cities though, we r not that far from the mid 20th century yet.

[bulls007]

there starting to build and already they have built alot of condoes near the UC and near western and madison etc

[insertlettucehere]

I never thought of that; that's really interesting.

Presidential Towers was in financial trouble from the start; that may have had something to do with its move away from public housing. It seems Cabrini might meet the same fate if it too goes way over budget.

[ChiTownfool]

laughter is the best medicene, maybe youshouldn't be such a queero sexual

[jdub76]

You shouldn't joke like this so actually you're the retard who has no respect and you suck. Get a life you idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!