Demolition of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, once the nation's largest housing project, took place some two decades ago. King remembers life there—the gun violence and "the stuff that went on at ...

Three new Chicago buildings, which combine public libraries and public housing, are head and shoulders above the Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini-Green and the rest of the city’s dehumanizing, now ...

They are Chicago`s high-rise public housing projects: ... (Chicago) projects was just under $23 million for 4,040 units, ... were the Robert Taylor Homes, ...

The first units of a $500 million redevelopment project that will change the Robert Taylor Homes site into a 2,400-unit mixed-income neighborhood will be built on land just east of the public ...

The Robert Taylor Homes’ failure is the failure of the police, the Chicago Housing Authority and ultimately us, as the taxpayers and landlords of public housing, to stand by and allow the police ...

CHICAGO -- The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings, full of people who have paid $20 for a tour of what was once among the most dangerous areas of this or ...

An old Chicago Housing Authority sign that sat outside the sole remaining building from the Jane Addams Homes in the 1300 block of West Taylor Street is taken into storage, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019.

The Robert Taylor Homes were erected by the Chicago Housing Authority in 1962, in part to house residents displaced by urban renewal. The buildings were well maintained at first, but soon the city ...

It is hard now to look at drab, looming housing projects like Cabrini-Green or the Robert Taylor, ABLA or Henry Horner Homes and imagine that people once saw in them beacons of humane enlightenment.

The Legends Farm site sits on land that was once part of the Robert Taylor Homes public housing complex, at 45th and Federal. Where high-rise Chicago Housing Authority towers once stood, ...