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2:25 my old project building on the right

Everytime I see these ole flicks..I wanna cry..nuthin but str8 memories...I was born n raised in tha Gardens on tha low-end and now u don't even see tha bricks no more is craaaazy...our bldg was right in front White Sox Park...so when 4th of July came around we got tha best seats...lookin off our porches😂🤣🤣😅😂🤣 those were tha days☝️

Lack of pride and self worth is what led to the demise of projects. Low income does not constitute settling for poor conditons. Nor not taking proud in your living environment. Housing projects started as a means of recovery and restoration. Not life long poverty and lack of ambition.

I'm glad that you thought those people had a choice to live like that. That's all they could afford and the fact that you put everybody in the same box of crime and violence only shows your ignorance and racism. you're completely out of touch and can't possibly begin to relate to that and honestly i don't think you would even take the time to try. With that being said f you and glad your channel isn't prosperous. F@&&@+

SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

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Really nice video, the music compliments those gloomy images of the past, great historical context. Before those projects I believe poor Italian and Irish immigrants settled there as well with the same problems of crime and poverty, only until today has it now become of high real estate value because of its proximity to downtown. I agree with your commentary, it’s unfortunate. This is what happens when the government takes over your livelihood, you take the cheese and then they fail to provide because of misused funds behind the scenes. Both parties to me are two sides of the same coin, but this is why I would never vote Democrat.

Thank you for this. This was my home

I wonder why they were demolished i understand that they were very degraded but it was enough to renovate them and i was sorry not to see them again because then these structures also had a certain charm

Nice music

I am proud to be from Chicago, and it is one of the greatest cities in the USA. However people quick to show you the project s but they not telling how State Senator was missing using funds that should have went back into the south side communities. So where the people who were are miss using funds. The blood and tear on young black boys and girls back, and they will never be healed from such a harsh well of growing up. I believe the people who didn’t do right with spending the funds the right way should be placed in jail.

same problems as any projects in any city. too many poor people concentrated together. Sprinkle the poor around to other areas, the areas can absorb them, and the poor will have to acclimate to their surroundings. but if you keep them all together, the "project mentality" becomes the norm, the accepted mindset, and the pathology continues for generations.

The person who put this together is sadly misinformed and spells like a 8 year old. Money was put into these places initially. Then as time passed and federal and local funding dried up. It became a place for the powerful to throw its castaways of society. So by the 70s some of the worst elements of human nature could be found there.

Makes me so sad I was born and raised in Chicago I hate to see what has happened I will always love Chicago no matter what very proud being from Chicago

They "failed" because they were designed to. Poverty+property neglect+social and economic disenfranchisement+substandard schools+low expectations+the large scale proliferation of illegal narcotics and firearms+mass incarceration=the anarchy we see on the south and west sides today. Which is leading to a mass exodus of poor and black people from the city limits of Chicago BY DESIGN. None of this is "random." The plutocrats, oligarchs, and bourgeois will take Chicago over lock, stock, and barrel. Pricing poor working folks out. We have become a "two tiered economy/society. One wealthy, one poor. And the middle class is dying off.

At the start, after the depression, building public housing developments afforded people a decent place to live, especially the poor and working poor. However, isolating people on the fringes of cities, then not maintaining the buildings, or having any real employment opportunities caused the decline and failure of public housing. To come in and tear down these developments without considering the PEOPLE who live there is not a solution. Does America still need public housing? Definitely! Especially after the recession, when affordable housing is scarce, and more people are either living in poverty, or knocking on poverty's door. I find it terribly wrong to blame poor people for their poverty, especially today, when the economic divide is wider than ever. It angers me greatly that the richest nation in the world treats it's poor so shamefully. If private landlords maintained/managed their properties the way the government has done with public housing, they would be labelled "slumlords" and their faces would be plastered everywhere. What does that say for our government? Why do only people with money have power? Are poor people any "less than"? I don't believe so. There are more types of poverty than just financial, the worst be poverty of the mind (hopelessness). America has lost generations of people to poverty. What is ahead for the country, if we privatize everything for profits and disregarding/marginalizing everyone who doesn't have money?

how comes they've torn all these down and south side has a worse homicide rate than ever? Chiraq still exists without the blocks...

this is so sad

Just came across this site. I grew up in the Harold Ickes during the 50s and 60s. What is being displayed here is far from what I experienced as a child. Yes, were poor but both parents were present and taught me, an only child, that education was important. We had curfews and if they were violated there was a fine of at least $25. Parents made sure that we abided by the curfew. The grounds were well kept with flowers and green grass. We respected the buildings. They were not gang infested during the early days. These pictures depict the projects as some awful breeding ground for Black folks to do drugs, not go to school or do anything positive. This person should interview people who are at least 65 and older to get a real view of what the projects provided for us as we transitioned into a better life.

The gang violence took place more after the projects got torn down

15 story rat trap

Get Rid of ALL Projects

Tear down ALL the Projects

Once upon a time in the projects yo...

Chicago will be the next Detroit city

reminds me of Pripyat...But Pripyat is a tragedy...

pure squalor

This was terrible. What's your point with this? I clicked on this because I wanted to learn more about the Chicago Housing disaster and all I got was some pseudo-racist propaganda bullshit. You feel good about this?

The Crabrini-Green projects was filmed on the opening and closing credits on the "GoodTimes" show. If these projects was free housing, why did the "Evan Family struggle to pay rent?

Once they torned down the projects, they made the gang problem worst than it was back in the 70's-80's.

The complexes looks like Le Corbusier's nightmare. Le Corbusier was high on something to come with the the City in the Park concept.

The Housing Act of 1949 gave funding to build these super blocks, but the Act didn't fund the maintenance. With out funding for maintenance, it turned into these crime ridden hell holes. Also the funding did not allow for mix use. Ground floor retail as barbershops, Trader Joes, etc would have given the sense of community. The housing complexes were an employment and grocery desert.

song name ???

2:06 looks kinda like queensbridge

if u stop giving birth, USA will end up going further down economic power due to lack of labor power or it will have to bring more Indians , Chinese, Arabs , etc to fill up the labor gap. America should produce more if it wants to maintain its World dominance, or else very soon China will fuck this nation.

I totally agree with you but when it comes to children they learn based on what they see.

Somebody caught me dancing balboa!

......seriously?

HIDEOUS!!! JUST HIDEOUS!!! GLAD IM FROM BOSTON!!! LOL!!!

Ernt. Wrong. What happened at Cabrini Green was a perfect storm of hamstrung policy (tenants were not allowed to own their places, if you went up in income you were forced out resulting in no mix of income, this became a deathnote once the nearby factories moved south to Mexico. The lack of income from both shuttering of factories and explicit policies meant to protect private real estate interests doomed the occupant make up to single mothers only (The drug war removed the males.)

Historical perspective needed here. There was a massive migration from the south to jobs in the north after WW2. The tenements that existed were demolished to make way for these "modern" buildings. Because the residents did not have "ownership" of these and was given to them, there was no respect for them. They quicker turned into hell holes when globalization took over and the jobs went oversees.

There are no theories proving that black race is less intelligent than the white one. Black people have been through many hardships such as slavery and extreme racist behavior until some legends inspired people to think beyond color (Martin L. King etc). There are social reasons explaining why they think and behave the way the do since because of racism they haven't been actively participating in the marketing and economic evolution of a society because of the lack of trust.

Thats bullshit and you are a racist

Nice video.

This real estate is now worth millions! Thank you Mayor Daley.

Lol what about ABLA homes on Roosevelt? 0:59 - 1:04 i grew up there..i was like the only latino along with my other borthers and sister it was rough man..i was so glad when i saw those fuckers went down

I'm white.. how come shit has never been handed to me.all of you are ignorant.white and black

thats where im fom u no

the village in this bitch

Learn to spell, you ignorant piece of trash.It's your attitude that's keeping you down.