The Last Robert Taylor Homes Hi-Rise Demolition, Pt. 5

If you used to live in this building, I should warn you: it may be unsettling to watch.

The demolition of Robert Taylor Homes also affected the institutions around it: parks, schools, stores. I've tried to show a few of those institutions, including DuSable High School, alma mater of, among others, Nat King Cole and Dinah Washington. It was only a few years old and the creme-de-la-creme of black high schools when they were going there.

Notice that several of its tall windows facing what was Robert Taylor Homes are completely bricked over.

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[brut2011]

OOHH!.. I"M SO GLAD THESE GETTO PLACES ARE GONE!!!...GOOD CLEAN FOLKS ARE THERE NOW!.... GOOD RIDDANCE!!...

[artistmac]

@brut2011 Except for 35th to 36th and 41st to 44th, the west side of State Street from 35th to 54th is still mostly wasteland. And since Roundy's decided to build at 17th and Clark instead of 39th and State, the few "good clean folks" that have been able to buy homes there in this economy STILL have no place close by to shop for groceries. And you and I both know they're not soiling their dainty little feet at Fairplay at 46th and Halsted. Yay:(

[williambernardbrown]

@artistmac what does BTW stand for

[artistmac]

@williambernardbrown "By the way"

[williambernardbrown]

no disrespect but they flushed the toilet. i graduated at dusable in 2001 by the way so i k.ow what im talking about.

[artistmac]

@williambernardbrown The "toilet", as you put it, got flushed into South Shore, Chatham, Auburn-Gresham and other middle-class neighborhoods where landlords took Section 8 Vouchers and didn't vet tenants thoroughly. At former Mayor Daley's budget hearings, where the public got to speak, "that Section 8 house down the street" was always a hot topic for discussion. BTW, I notice that DuSable's and Beasley's windows facing west are still bricked over.

[PawtucketPatriot66]

Good riddance....Al public hoiusing should be destiyed they are a haven for crime, criminals and the lowlife element......The government using public housing as a means for keeping minorities, in paricular blacks, down. Anything the government gives you is no good.

[artistmac]

Well, I'm not crazy about having my tax money go to pay for roads, sewers and shopping centers in suburbs I don't live in or visit and wouldn't be welcome if I did. Cuts both ways.

[CaspersSVT]

@brut2011 Fucking retard all they did was move all this shit out west

[extravirginclean]

hey, if you lived there and r here to tell about it, count your blessings.

[719kai719]

@FasterThanYou321 How stereotypical of you to say this! Sounds rather racist to me.Guess you think all black people eat chicken and watermelon!

[DIANDRANICOLELONG]

THEY RATHER DEMOLISH THE BUILDINGS INSTEAD OF FIXING THEM UP FOR THE LOW INCOME FAMILYS THAT NEED THEM