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 ...

With one team of developers nominated to rebuild the Stateway Gardens complex, influential firms hoping to lead two other Chicago Housing Authority redevelopment projects are gathering more ...

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, ...

My first trip to the Robert Taylor Homes—a high-rise housing project on Chicago’s South Side—was after a shooting. Dust blew everywhere because there was no grass to hold down the dirt.

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 ...

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 ...

Theresa Boler, a former resident of the Robert Taylor Homes, now lives in a Chicago Housing Authority senior building. Credit: Carlos Javier Ortiz, special to ProPublica ...

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.

Now that the Tribune-sponsored competition for a redesign of Cabrini-Green is over, an architectural reconsideration of Chicago’s largest public housing project, the Robert Taylor Homes, is ...

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 ...

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 ...