I grew up in the "Ickes" on 24th and State Street. We left in 1977 and lived in 2 other states. I was in Chicago recently and could not believe what is happening. There was a time when I might have thought about returning, but now, NEVER.
I lived in Cabrini Green between 1974-1980 as a child to early teens. The day my mom moved out, I vowed to never look back and I haven’t. Those years were some of the most scariest years of my childhood. I’ve witness some things no child or adult should. Mr. Jesse white( now Secretary of State) was not only a great gym teacher but a positive mentor and role model for the children of Cabrini and took many of us on great memorable trips and taught us there was more to life than poverty. I had good moments and bad moments in Cabrini but I’m glad that history is no more.
Candyman was a Hollywood made up legend. I lived in Cabrini for years along with other relatives and we never heard of the Candyman until it came out at theaters. Our Candyman were the gangbangers and drug dealers. They were real!
I don't. Just move. They want to stay in that shyt hole. I wouldn't raise a stray dog in the city hood. These people continue to have kids in poor and dangerous conditions.
I can't imagine! It's like tearing down Jordan downs in watts and imperial gardens and now you got grape street crips and bounty Hunter bloods having to make a living amongst each other? No fkn way
The difference with Chicago Vs NYC projects is that NYC is so crowded that the projects are needed just to ensure that people have a place to live. NYC is being forced to renovate or provide private armed security in many of their project communities...Chicago like many other cities chose to "clear the jungle"...
I'm not even from Chicago but by reading the horrible history of how public housing did to the occupants in low income housing, in my humble opinion Robert Taylor Homes takes the list..you talking 5 miles of projects. It gives me the creeps everytime I think of the dark hallways and people sitting on the floor everyday to avoid gunshots.
My grandma on my mom side you to hand around all of these projects except 2 or 3 and my grandma on my dad side and my dad and uncles and aunts grew up in one of these projects the Dearborn homes and I used to go to school over there I know people from there too
I grew up in Chicago on 17th and Laflin St from 1963 to 1973 and i remember Carbini Green they were rough areas, it was forbidden to cross or walk by tunnels under tracks going north on Laflin St. The lights under tunnels were alway broken and it was dark even during the day, people would get mugged or beat up then tensions would rise and huge street fights would break out. People would go around the block just to avoid tunnel openings and any problems. It was crazy.
1980's?! Cabrini-Green was LIT well into the 2000's - up until it was torn down really. The 80's is when crack came into Play,, they DEFINITELY didn't SLOW DOWN during the 80's!
I was born and raised in Cabrini Green. I was there from 1981-1991. Crazy stuff went on there. Especially at night. Crime was a daily fact of life there. I'm just grateful I survived and moved away.
The top “Gang” operating Stateway Gardens/Robert Taylor Homes was the Chicago Police. They were running protection for the gangs and taking a large payout for it.
That was not true in the early days of the first few projects. We lived there for nearly 16 years. I am speaking from experience. We had a curfew and there were two security guards who parolled through to make sure the curfew was enforced. There were no drugs, no shootings and no gangs. The security guards were friendly and they were Black. My dad always said, "What is there for teenagers to do after 9 p.m. on week days and 11 p.m. on weekends?"He was right.
They didn’t run nothing the folks did it was police stations in the building one side of the lobby had a police station the other had rocks blows weed!!!!!!!
@@Juscallmeshaun a fact it was a compromise made between the police and the big folks hustling only stopped when kids went to and from school 100 percent facts
I'm from Boston and went to visit family on the Westside and checked out the Robert Taylor Homes. They had a police station in there I was like this shit is crazy 1989. Never seen so many projects. Peace to the Chi
I was raised in the Dearborns until I was 11. I didn't know it would be number 1 on the list, yikes. My clearest memory was when they shot up the building, we lived on the 5th floor. I ran to the back room to be with my mom and sis but as I ran pass the first bedroom a bullet flew threw the window... The next morning we found the bullet on the shelf. The scariest shit ever. I thank God that my mother did everything in her power to get us out of there shortly after that.
Yeah it was bad over there my grandma and dad and uncles and aunties lived over there for a long time and told me that it was bad, you know the school Williams elementary or drake school I used to go to that school bruh
And u not lying one time they were shooting outside while we at recess when we was at school we had to hurry inside by the teachers and my granny tell me they still be shooting over there all the time still to this day
I was driving around once and got lost somewhere on the southside. I was pulled over by a cop that told me if I didn't leave I would possibly be executed. He even took me back to the interstate to make sure I got out safe. I was lost for words.
I believe it because if you were lost the gangs in the neighborhood would'nt have recognized you or your car and possibly shot you thinking you was an opp.
Dude same with me!! Literally got escorted to the expressway. Almost pissed my pants. I was 18 yrs old at the time. Got lost. At one point I was so lost and about to run out of gas. I saw a bunch of people on the corner staring at me. I was ready to get out of the car, slit my own wrists and get into the trunk to die b4 I could be raped and killed. It was terrible.
This fool hasn't got a clue! Maybe 7th on the list in 80s/90s but far from being the WORST!!! Some that exceed the Dearborns would be the Robert Taylors, Stateway Gardens, Ida B. Wells,Cabrini Green and Harold Ickes to name a few, take it from a lifelong resident of the City of Chicago and former Dearborn resident
Yes, l lived in ABLA homes in the early 60's(1254 So Racine#104) rowhouse's, it was clean and quiet then, but it all changed in the '70's , it became drug infected, gangs running every building, robbery, Murder, etc, l 've seen some crazy shit in that area, and time in those buildings, then they start tearing them down in the late 90's. Now it beautiful in that area from what l hear, left Chicago IL in 2001 and have never looked back. Lived in Dallas, tx for 15 yrs, now in Phoenix Az have been for 5yrs, retired here.
I was born and raised in the village, both my parents were too. 1225 w Washburn 1256 taylor, I lived on Cabrini in the Jane Adams with my Aunt and I was born at my Grandmas house on 13th st. Bgn is the mob LLL Hardball the movie was shot there. I drive pass now and don't recognize anyone, but they're all my old friends kids from what what I see on Facebook. Now I live in the suburbs with my wife who's also from the Village and our 7 kids who never lived in the city
@@davidg7136 awesome black man, keep them protected and show them better daily but don't withhold all that knowledge and wisdom you learned. You really made my heart glad that you are here today to even tell it. God bless you
My mom worked a little job at Lincoln centers in Ida B Wells. I use to get my hair braided in the Dearborns🤯 My H.S. friend lived in Cabrini .I loved going to see her HOW DID YOU MISS THE ICKES !? 🤔 GOOD Times over there. Aunt Earline lived in Rockwell Gardens for ever and My grandma Ms. CARRIE LIVED & BREATHED 1850 W. WASHINGTON BLVD 6 FL. HENRY HORNER BOYS CLUB & ALL.. Everybody was poor🤑😞we didn't even know it😩😭
I was born and raised in ABLA 1440 W 13th. I had family who resided in the village. I moved away in 2000 but moved back in 2009 to the new development Roosevelt Square which sits on the land that was the Jane Addams.
@@kiki1573 I seen it, even the street orleans ave had ethiopians, latinos and whites walking up & down it... back when I was living there during the 1970's & 1980's you would never have seen that. I can bet a $1000 sister that those new condos where the highrises once stood are still haunted than a motherfucker!
This isn't some American phenomenon...Projects are rough in any country that they exist. The UK, France, Russia and all of Latin America have the same issues with their pjs.
@@brooklyndorsey3562 Actually the UK has torn down many of their original council estates (PJs) and replaced them. They were very rundown and health hazards much like Robert Taylor, Cabrini Green and the Ida B. Wells highrise PJs in Chicago. There are actually many British hood movies and shows that take place in their estates, ie. TopBoy on Netflix. Also "The Intent" is a series of two movies. Very good movies about the street life in the UK. In some ways I would argue that life is even worse over there because UK has 🔫 restrictions so when dudes wanna go to war or go for the payback they're coming with blades. They also do acid attacks on ppl in the UK...mangle someone's face for life as a act of revenge. It's pretty damn ruthless out there tbh...
Born in raised up in down state street the first projects we lived at was the ikies on 22th state then we moved a little up state to the robert Taylor homes on 43rd state we was blessed to make it out alive i give thanks to my mother rip mama
Rockwell projects became my stomping grounds in 1996 and going thru economic and financial changes made Rockwell a easy avenue for me to bounce from rags to riches. In my mind the money was too good to let go in place of a 9 to 5, boy was I wrong. When money is fast and plentiful there are also sacrifices that must be made and a lot of them was a risk factor of death. I ain't at liberty of going into detail, but beside the blood money nothing good came with the life (y'all know the story all so well). I have never been a bad person, but I did a few bad things allowing ignorance to overtake the best of my intellect. I am fortunate to still be here today to confirm that the lifestyle of drugs and street gangs are toxic and most ppl who suffer are the innocent ones (just look at all the ppl who died in cross fires who had nothing to do with our madness. It just don't make sense.
I notice a lot of comments about these places and how they are today. the point of the vid was to highlight their infamy in their time. a lot of these famous hoods have been gentrified nowadays
@@derickaelsley782 I was born in 85. I was terrified to look in the mirror and say CM 3 times. I was scared of buildings too due to that crazy movie. Lol U gotta see it.
Mz Fancy G'day how are you this evening? I'm from Australia....which explains why i had never even heard of Candyman. That thing about the mirror & saying the name 3 times sounds very similar to BM. Don't ever play those dangerous & stupid paranormal games. Any of them!!! You never know what you could be inviting through. Then if something bad & evil does come through you could be stuck with them forever. Just don't risk it. It's not worth it.
@@derickaelsley782 I was a child and being scared and coaxed by older cousins and siblings to do it and they were also children. It was apart of the fictional movie. Now in present day as a 30+ woman it is foolish and dumb.
the poor are slaves to the rich .no matter what color . most less paying jobs cater to rich and wealthy, jobs like . maids , food servers ,janitorial etc. its slave work because it pays so little and demands so much. NOW project houseing , ghettos ,poor income areas are made to keep the poor or a certain group of people in a area of the city , through the control of money and income its a game of the haves and the have nots it separates the rich from the poor ,middle class, upper class and lower class .all divide into different sections . the more money you have the better your section or location is. this system leaves room for foul play . your able to keep a certain group , race , gender etc. right where you want them through control of the income , hiring , felony laws, immigration laws , bias education system etc. you get the point. its called white supremacy.
@@donaldtrump8224 If the shoe fits then wear it , your replying to this because it got to you . because its the truth and the truth hurts. You must have a understanding and a listening issue basically what im trying to say is your S L O W . I was'nt complaining nor did i say anything about myself to give you a thought that i was talking about me . I was clearly stating my point of view about this crooked american system controlled by crooked white politician like Dummy TRAP and a whole long line list of others. You stupid FUCK!
Your a moron. Take your brain out of your wheelchair and do something about it. I live a pretty good life thanks to hard work and education. Something you obviously have no understanding of. You will continue to be a bum if you keep blaming others for you own faults. The system is not rigged against you dumbass but keep thinking that way.
@Cya If the shoe fits then wear it , your replying to this because it got to you . because its the truth and the truth hurts. You must have a understanding and a listening issue basically what im trying to say is your S L O W . I was'nt complaining nor did i say anything about myself to give you a thought that i was talking about me . I was clearly stating my point of view about this crooked american system controlled by crooked white politician like Dummy TRAP and a whole long line list of others. You stupid FUCK!
We used to blow at and get blew at by so mny bd's from new town jo I swear 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ all at the blue sea blowing at ea other... gotta G from the low end to know what I'm tlkn bout!!!
@@MrsBraxtonChrist So I take it that gangsters wasn't that bad at that time (70's) to film that show cause for it to hit the charts for being the most dangerous projects, that's bad?
Had friends and aquaintes that i hung out with everyday in those projects it was fucked up in those areas lot of good people it ain't all bad in the hood just got to know how to move and carry yourself
I lived in the Ida B. Wells Homes/ Community since I was born in 1991 until around 2007, when my family moved to Wentworth Gardens. The neighborhood was dangerous in a way, but every place has it's flaws. I actually miss it! 😊
My potna rondell got paralyzed out there around that time... the police ran into the car he was prkd outside in... I used to be all up thru there those years.. they used to put the dumpsters in the street so the bd's couldn't just ride thru there on no dumb shit... I remember all that... those was the days!!!
I lived not too far from the Gardens been there before and after they did it. It’s better now and I remember Robert Taylor projects when I was little. My people live down the street. They moved people out quick and seen them torn the buildings down, but last time I visited Chicago still nothing there just a field. I miss home.
You didn't mention Parkway Gardens (O Block) or Harold Ickes Homes..plus since you like to mention what project that certain celebrities come from or in the case of Baltimore's Mculloh homes and "THE WIRE" it would have been nice if you mentioned the show Good Times with Cabrini Green..ijs
What about that building on 41st@prairie..straigt jungle,warzone..couldnt even walk to the sto'..it was so crazy..low key that 1 building should have been on this list
Cabrini green baby! 1117 n. cleveland. Went to jenner right across the street. Byrd was across the field. Used to love going to jets and the downtown store.
Yes I use to live in Robert Taylor Homes! In a place called The Hole, because of the last three buildings forming a half circle! It was something else, it got worse from the time I was there!
Wow, just saw this. many of these facts are a little jaded, for one the first entry of cabrini is now considered near north area, one of the most changed areas in chicago. it is now upper class and a beautiful area about 65 to 70% white and not much crime at all alot of tourist go out in this area. most of the areas on this list have been transformed. someone has not been to chicago in a long time!! many of these areas are now housing 6 figure earners. check the internet for current photos of these areas. type in their current community names because even that has changed. near north , gold coast wicker park areas that use to be war zones they no longer are.
trell40 white people took over all our areas and claimed it as there on, once the city made it fancy. You couldn’t pay them to come around or live there before hand PERIOD
WTF😳??? DEARBORN HOMES!! Ranked #1 and CABRINI GREEN #10? I grew up in Robert Taylor projects And I had family that lived in Stateway Gardens. Growing up in the 60’s, I remember them being very nice clean and well taken care of. My mother worked for IIT and she used to tell me that the plan always was to tear down those housing projects. Many of them were built on prime real estate. With the overcrowding of the Northside, white people want that Southside badly. that is why the city allowed those projects to deteriorate. Many of those people moved out to the far Southside into neighborhoods that were once high middle-class areas for black people. And now that’s where all the crime and shootings are taking place now.
The good news is with the end of redlining, the general increase in living standards, and regional integration the next generation of Chicago residents will grow up in a more open and mobile environment. The South side will lose much of its historic black character. But Chicago residents will tend to define themselves through cultural signifiers more than skin color
We used to slide to stateway all the way from out west!! got off on 43rd an pershing to get us a sack of tht (no limit) for the sawbuck ... I was 16 then so this was like 98' smh, thinkin back on it now those was some dangerous missions we was goin on fkn around in stateway Joe, I'm tlkn 2:30/3 in the mrng sometimes later!!! the building's was still lit at those hours.. kids used to still be outside an everything... I miss those days!!! you jus gotta be from the chi to relate I guess!!!
@@Imichaelperry I'm alrdy knowin you seen some shit... we did every time we went out there... and the police didnt come in there period.. fam those buildings wasn't nothin to play wit.. 😂😂😂🤣 we used to sit in the car arguing bout who turn it was to go in that bitch.... I used to hit tht dark ass stairwell to the right.. all yu could see was arms reachin down holdin them big ass G packs an yo ass bet not grab more than you paid for neither lol...
Cabrini green is now Xavier building. Luxury living, my girlfriend’s brother used to lived there super expensive and some low income people also live there. So the mixed income idea does came to fruition. Shit is crazy how that changed.
Damn I remember as a kid growing up in the Village, fosco park, right across the big field. Man it was fun but scary at the same time. All my family is from the A.B.L.A projects. These living conditions fucked up alot ppl mental. Its not normal living that way its sad.
The way we live our lives on this earth determines where we going when we die, either heaven or hell there is no in between. We can't be down here on earth living for the devil and expect to make it to heaven. Read in you all HOLY BIBLES Galatians chapter 5 verses 16-23 and 2 Timothy chapter 3 and Leviticus chapter 19 verse 28. And if we reject GOD'S word we reject GOD HIMSELF
I used to live in lathrop Holmes as a kid and go back from time to time got a lot of extended family and friends that shit is dead as fuck now I don’t even know how they ended up on the list
Why was the "Teen Town CVL" sign shown as part of the Ida B. Wells housing project which it is not.... its from 16th st & Lawndale on the Westside... Used to pass it everyday going to HS in the late 60's traveling through CVL territory..
I'm a true Flint$tone.In 1984 when Flint football players went on visits to Colleges and met up at a party, we would yell out, Flint$tones in the house. To let you know it's more than one, School representing.And we would have each other's backs. Class of 85 I love that time.
My whole family from the wild 100s in the city and got a aunt from Cabrini greens but when you gone do Memphis or Nashville or anywhere in the south shit kcrakcin bro fr
1627 Interstate I used to stay in Clarksville Tennessee I know how it is down there but I'm from the wild Hunt Chicago all day long sad but true that I missed a project though we have fun
This is the real reason that there is a lot of deaths in Chicago. They built huge communities then demolished them, which spread the community to other communities and still have to attend a school that was not of their peers. Scary situation but with no jobs or structure for the youth how can it become better
Born and raised in IDA B Wells, I graduated from nursing school in 1987 ( Uof I chicago campus) and left.
I got lost and ended up in Ida B Wells years ago.lol
Tbh it looks just like most projects in my hometown (Philly).
Liz Malone we stayed in building 511 right behind Doolittle Middle School on 35th and Cottage Grove
My mom was a teacher at Lincoln center in the 70's 80's
I grew up in the "Ickes" on 24th and State Street. We left in 1977 and lived in 2 other states. I was in Chicago recently and could not believe what is happening. There was a time when I might have thought about returning, but now, NEVER.
Liz Malone hey im from there
I lived in Cabrini Green between 1974-1980 as a child to early teens. The day my mom moved out, I vowed to never look back and I haven’t. Those years were some of the most scariest years of my childhood. I’ve witness some things no child or adult should. Mr. Jesse white( now Secretary of State) was not only a great gym teacher but a positive mentor and role model for the children of Cabrini and took many of us on great memorable trips and taught us there was more to life than poverty. I had good moments and bad moments in Cabrini but I’m glad that history is no more.
and dismemberment?
I went to the high school that was built on top of Cabrini green
Was Candyman a real local legend? had to ask
Candyman was a Hollywood made up legend. I lived in Cabrini for years along with other relatives and we never heard of the Candyman until it came out at theaters. Our Candyman were the gangbangers and drug dealers. They were real!
Glad I made it out!!!
My fam came from the projects too. They were meant to be temporary housing until a family got on their feet, not to have generations raised there....
Same
"A number of famous rapes"
That just doesn't sound right...how about infamous
I feel sorry for honest hard working families who are forced to live amongst the gangs.
Why are yall on this channel lol
I don't. Just move. They want to stay in that shyt hole. I wouldn't raise a stray dog in the city hood. These people continue to have kids in poor and dangerous conditions.
Don't feel sorry.. start fighting against the white supremacist who don't allow equal opportunities to Blacks.
We don’t want you ther you all love into these areas because the city of Chicago is trying to move you into these neighborhoods
BEATING WOMEN SINCE 1994 hello troll lol
The problem is when they tore up the projects the opposing gangs had to move in the other opposing gangs neighborhood's
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I can't imagine! It's like tearing down Jordan downs in watts and imperial gardens and now you got grape street crips and bounty Hunter bloods having to make a living amongst each other? No fkn way
Then demolish all of the projects and adopt the kids
Seen or been to at least half of these places...
Many of them are gone.
The difference with Chicago Vs NYC projects is that NYC is so crowded that the projects are needed just to ensure that people have a place to live. NYC is being forced to renovate or provide private armed security in many of their project communities...Chicago like many other cities chose to "clear the jungle"...
Lol. Mixed income just results in higher salaried people being robbed and everyone moving out.
Amen to that
I'm not even from Chicago but by reading the horrible history of how public housing did to the occupants in low income housing, in my humble opinion Robert Taylor Homes takes the list..you talking 5 miles of projects. It gives me the creeps everytime I think of the dark hallways and people sitting on the floor everyday to avoid gunshots.
My grandma on my mom side you to hand around all of these projects except 2 or 3 and my grandma on my dad side and my dad and uncles and aunts grew up in one of these projects the Dearborn homes and I used to go to school over there I know people from there too
I grew up in Chicago on 17th and Laflin St from 1963 to 1973 and i remember Carbini Green they were rough areas, it was forbidden to cross or walk by tunnels under tracks going north on Laflin St. The lights under tunnels were alway broken and it was dark even during the day, people would get mugged or beat up then tensions would rise and huge street fights would break out. People would go around the block just to avoid tunnel openings and any problems. It was crazy.
That's the village projects
Why are people fascinated with projects? Who wants to continue to live like that?
What's with the wacky music? Can't the person speak without a music lead? And I split city. Chow.
Nobody does that's why they need to demolish all of them and force the ghetto mfers out
No 1.
Snarly, are you not comforted by all of the thank you notes you get from the gracious recipients?
Me
1980's?! Cabrini-Green was LIT well into the 2000's - up until it was torn down really. The 80's is when crack came into Play,, they DEFINITELY didn't SLOW DOWN during the 80's!
I was born and raised in Cabrini Green. I was there from 1981-1991. Crazy stuff went on there. Especially at night. Crime was a daily fact of life there. I'm just grateful I survived and moved away.
The top “Gang” operating Stateway Gardens/Robert Taylor Homes was the Chicago Police. They were running protection for the gangs and taking a large payout for it.
That was not true in the early days of the first few projects. We lived there for nearly 16 years. I am speaking from experience. We had a curfew and there were two security guards who parolled through to make sure the curfew was enforced. There were no drugs, no shootings and no gangs. The security guards were friendly and they were Black. My dad always said, "What is there for teenagers to do after 9 p.m. on week days and 11 p.m. on weekends?"He was right.
They didn’t run nothing the folks did it was police stations in the building one side of the lobby had a police station the other had rocks blows weed!!!!!!!
@@KiGANG-5734 wait Fr? Cuz I knew my granny and uncles used to hang around all of these except a couple of em
@@Juscallmeshaun a fact it was a compromise made between the police and the big folks hustling only stopped when kids went to and from school 100 percent facts
High rise projects look the scariest
They was. No elevator most of time. Someone always in it, giving food or showing ID to shut them up
Not really 😂😂😂😂🤣😎
You should see the state of Eastern Europe
They had snipers in most these buildings
I'm from Boston and went to visit family on the Westside and checked out the Robert Taylor Homes. They had a police station in there I was like this shit is crazy 1989. Never seen so many projects. Peace to the Chi
Henry Horner Homes on the West side, Robert Taylors out south, Yeah it had projects from 21st Street to 54th St lol State St
@@87thNixx lol I noticed I messed that up after I wrote it
Peace to the Chi
Stateway had 1 too
Been thru all of the projects In Chicago and still love my city
I was raised in the Dearborns until I was 11. I didn't know it would be number 1 on the list, yikes. My clearest memory was when they shot up the building, we lived on the 5th floor. I ran to the back room to be with my mom and sis but as I ran pass the first bedroom a bullet flew threw the window... The next morning we found the bullet on the shelf. The scariest shit ever. I thank God that my mother did everything in her power to get us out of there shortly after that.
Yeah it was bad over there my grandma and dad and uncles and aunties lived over there for a long time and told me that it was bad, you know the school Williams elementary or drake school I used to go to that school bruh
And u not lying one time they were shooting outside while we at recess when we was at school we had to hurry inside by the teachers and my granny tell me they still be shooting over there all the time still to this day
I spent a lot of my childhood at 1253 Loomis.Chicago, 60607... From the mid 80's to the mid 90's.. It was like Beirut.
5:55, was priceless and brotha keep grinding! Hope that young man listens to you!
I was driving around once and got lost somewhere on the southside. I was pulled over by a cop that told me if I didn't leave I would possibly be executed. He even took me back to the interstate to make sure I got out safe. I was lost for words.
I believe it because if you were lost the gangs in the neighborhood would'nt have recognized you or your car and possibly shot you thinking you was an opp.
@@monadejaneiro Yes indeed
Cute kid Michael Turner. God Bless you and your family.
So basically don't pick Chicago for a destination at all.. Or carry 20 guns... Got it
Dude same with me!! Literally got escorted to the expressway. Almost pissed my pants. I was 18 yrs old at the time. Got lost. At one point I was so lost and about to run out of gas. I saw a bunch of people on the corner staring at me. I was ready to get out of the car, slit my own wrists and get into the trunk to die b4 I could be raped and killed. It was terrible.
This fool hasn't got a clue! Maybe 7th on the list in 80s/90s but far from being the WORST!!! Some that exceed the Dearborns would be the Robert Taylors, Stateway Gardens, Ida B. Wells,Cabrini Green and Harold Ickes to name a few, take it from a lifelong resident of the City of Chicago and former Dearborn resident
andre darden right Dearborn Holmes ain’t on shit compared to Robert Taylor’s or the greens or Evan the hornets
Yall trippin. The Dearborns ain't Cabrini or the Taylor's but them Mcz and Gdz stayed into it.
He did say from the 80’s and nineties. Why don’t you do a video on it and show this “fool” what time it is then.
he sho didnt do the ickies unless i missed it
Cabrini is gone, too.
Yes, l lived in ABLA homes in the early 60's(1254 So Racine#104) rowhouse's, it was clean and quiet then, but it all changed in the '70's , it became drug infected, gangs running every building, robbery, Murder, etc, l 've seen some crazy shit in that area, and time in those buildings, then they start tearing them down in the late 90's. Now it beautiful in that area from what l hear, left Chicago IL in 2001 and have never looked back. Lived in Dallas, tx for 15 yrs, now in Phoenix Az have been for 5yrs, retired here.
Small world. I grew up there in the 80's and 70's. 1229 W. Cabrini. In the 3 story
Yeah I lived there in the 90’s. It’s still wild so much killing still.
I was born and raised in the village, both my parents were too. 1225 w Washburn 1256 taylor, I lived on Cabrini in the Jane Adams with my Aunt and I was born at my Grandmas house on 13th st. Bgn is the mob LLL Hardball the movie was shot there. I drive pass now and don't recognize anyone, but they're all my old friends kids from what what I see on Facebook. Now I live in the suburbs with my wife who's also from the Village and our 7 kids who never lived in the city
@@davidg7136 awesome black man, keep them protected and show them better daily but don't withhold all that knowledge and wisdom you learned. You really made my heart glad that you are here today to even tell it. God bless you
@@MrsBraxtonChrist thank you 😀
My mom worked a little job at Lincoln centers in Ida B Wells. I use to get my hair braided in the Dearborns🤯 My H.S. friend lived in Cabrini .I loved going to see her HOW DID YOU MISS THE ICKES !? 🤔 GOOD Times over there. Aunt Earline lived in Rockwell Gardens for ever and My grandma Ms. CARRIE LIVED & BREATHED 1850 W. WASHINGTON BLVD 6 FL. HENRY HORNER BOYS CLUB & ALL.. Everybody was poor🤑😞we didn't even know it😩😭
Well done I remember seeing some of these places in the news in the 80's and 90's.
I was born and raised in ABLA 1440 W 13th. I had family who resided in the village. I moved away in 2000 but moved back in 2009 to the new development Roosevelt Square which sits on the land that was the Jane Addams.
I used to live in the ickies projects it was about 1/2 blocks away from the Dearborn's I went to Williams school before it got shut down
I ill never forget growing up in the Cabrini Green Housing Projects and I don't miss it either!!!
Today its gentrified. Condos like a mutha now
@@kiki1573 I seen it, even the street orleans ave had ethiopians, latinos and whites walking up & down it... back when I was living there during the 1970's & 1980's you would never have seen that.
I can bet a $1000 sister that those new condos where the highrises once stood are still haunted than a motherfucker!
JACK MAN tell me what is was like bro???
Not expecting that voice given the channel name...
This isn't some American phenomenon...Projects are rough in any country that they exist. The UK, France, Russia and all of Latin America have the same issues with their pjs.
Yea but America probably the only country we’re public housing completely failed.
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Perhaps...but the UK and France have some pretty rough PJs too.
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Actually the UK has torn down many of their original council estates (PJs) and replaced them. They were very rundown and health hazards much like Robert Taylor, Cabrini Green and the Ida B. Wells highrise PJs in Chicago. There are actually many British hood movies and shows that take place in their estates, ie. TopBoy on Netflix.
Also "The Intent" is a series of two movies. Very good movies about the street life in the UK. In some ways I would argue that life is even worse over there because UK has 🔫 restrictions so when dudes wanna go to war or go for the payback they're coming with blades. They also do acid attacks on ppl in the UK...mangle someone's face for life as a act of revenge. It's pretty damn ruthless out there tbh...
yeaa in Spain we have: la mina,las 3000 viviendas,font de la pólvora, polígono de la Cartuja etc
Why do everybody come here then
When was this filmed??? They already tore down caprini.....while ago
At least gangs were confined and structured then. Now its fricking kaos!!
Chicago was so bad growing up there but if you ask me, its gotten alot better
You got Cabrini Green @ 10 and Robert Taylor @ 7? You got to be kidding me!!!
I miss Robert Taylor projects that's my home dam those were the good old days dam
I lived in Stateway Gardens, Robert Taylor Homes, but hung out in Ida B Wells, Algeld Gardens, Dearborn and Rockwell!
Born in raised up in down state street the first projects we lived at was the ikies on 22th state then we moved a little up state to the robert Taylor homes on 43rd state we was blessed to make it out alive i give thanks to my mother rip mama
I was born and raised in Chicago so I've been thru all those projects
Nope fake ops
Rockwell projects became my stomping grounds in 1996 and going thru economic and financial changes made Rockwell a easy avenue for me to bounce from rags to riches. In my mind the money was too good to let go in place of a 9 to 5, boy was I wrong. When money is fast and plentiful there are also sacrifices that must be made and a lot of them was a risk factor of death. I ain't at liberty of going into detail, but beside the blood money nothing good came with the life (y'all know the story all so well). I have never been a bad person, but I did a few bad things allowing ignorance to overtake the best of my intellect. I am fortunate to still be here today to confirm that the lifestyle of drugs and street gangs are toxic and most ppl who suffer are the innocent ones (just look at all the ppl who died in cross fires who had nothing to do with our madness. It just don't make sense.
Shit by the time cops made it down that long gate the dope boys where chilling Jim the crib
Glad you're still here!
I notice a lot of comments about these places and how they are today. the point of the vid was to highlight their infamy in their time. a lot of these famous hoods have been gentrified nowadays
Candyman still haunts Cabrini
froladee who is Candyman? I've never heard of him.
I knew them projects looked 2 familiar that was actual on my mind and u confirmed it
@@derickaelsley782 I was born in 85. I was terrified to look in the mirror and say CM 3 times. I was scared of buildings too due to that crazy movie. Lol U gotta see it.
Mz Fancy G'day how are you this evening? I'm from Australia....which explains why i had never even heard of Candyman. That thing about the mirror & saying the name 3 times sounds very similar to BM. Don't ever play those dangerous & stupid paranormal games. Any of them!!! You never know what you could be inviting through. Then if something bad & evil does come through you could be stuck with them forever. Just don't risk it. It's not worth it.
@@derickaelsley782 I was a child and being scared and coaxed by older cousins and siblings to do it and they were also children. It was apart of the fictional movie. Now in present day as a 30+ woman it is foolish and dumb.
the poor are slaves to the rich .no matter what color . most less paying jobs cater to rich and wealthy, jobs like . maids , food servers ,janitorial etc. its slave work because it pays so little and demands so much. NOW project houseing , ghettos ,poor income areas are made to keep the poor or a certain group of people in a area of the city , through the control of money and income its a game of the haves and the have nots it separates the rich from the poor ,middle class, upper class and lower class .all divide into different sections . the more money you have the better your section or location is. this system leaves room for foul play . your able to keep a certain group , race , gender etc. right where you want them through control of the income , hiring , felony laws, immigration laws , bias education system etc. you get the point. its called white supremacy.
Get off your ass and make something of your self bum. Stop blaming others for your fuck ups.
@@donaldtrump8224 If the shoe fits then wear it , your replying to this because it got to you . because its the truth and the truth hurts. You must have a understanding and a listening issue basically what im trying to say is your S L O W . I was'nt complaining nor did i say anything about myself to give you a thought that i was talking about me . I was clearly stating my point of view about this crooked american system controlled by crooked white politician like Dummy TRAP and a whole long line list of others. You stupid FUCK!
Your a moron. Take your brain out of your wheelchair and do something about it. I live a pretty good life thanks to hard work and education. Something you obviously have no understanding of. You will continue to be a bum if you keep blaming others for you own faults. The system is not rigged against you dumbass but keep thinking that way.
@Cya If the shoe fits then wear it , your replying to this because it got to you . because its the truth and the truth hurts. You must have a understanding and a listening issue basically what im trying to say is your S L O W . I was'nt complaining nor did i say anything about myself to give you a thought that i was talking about me . I was clearly stating my point of view about this crooked american system controlled by crooked white politician like Dummy TRAP and a whole long line list of others. You stupid FUCK!
@@donaldtrump8224 You just dont get what i was saying or coming from , your listening , but you dont really hear me.
0:39 is a shot of NYC in SoHo, not Chicago.
I kid you not there are spots in Chicago that looks just like New York exactly who ever designed New York is the same person that designed Chicago
I lived in the Harold Ickes homes 24th State St. From 92-2000 allot of people lost their lives !! Shout out to Dewright / Anderson. We miss you bro.
Does anyone know about Newtown projects from back in the day around 38th and Ellis?
New Town & Ickes, Calumet Buildings....Probably needed to do top 20 in Chicago
Lol. They don't know
We used to blow at and get blew at by so mny bd's from new town jo I swear 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ all at the blue sea blowing at ea other... gotta G from the low end to know what I'm tlkn bout!!!
With the history that Cabrini Green had they should've been #1 on this list
They're up there!!
cabrini green where very bad
Mr Q Ceaz you are absolutely right the word "Notorious" definitely goes with Cabrini Green if you know the history of those projects
I’m from Cabrini Green I’ve been all over the world and people know about it.
I don’t believe the green was the wildest it’s was just the most talked about.
I grew up in Stateway Gardens lived on the 6th floor apt 613 and went to Raymond and Dyett schools
#10 Cabrini Greens looks like the projects from Good Times.
That's exactly what it is
@@MrsBraxtonChrist Oh wow..so the building condemned now?
@@taratheus9214 yep
@@MrsBraxtonChrist So I take it that gangsters wasn't that bad at that time (70's) to film that show cause for it to hit the charts for being the most dangerous projects, that's bad?
@@taratheus9214 I'm sure Good Times was filmed in LA, just the exterior shots were from Cabrini. The movie Candy Man was filmed at Cabrini tho
Had friends and aquaintes that i hung out with everyday in those projects it was fucked up in those areas lot of good people it ain't all bad in the hood just got to know how to move and carry yourself
PROJECTS WERE BUILT FOR THE PURPOSES OF DOING EXPERIMENTS ON A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE
I lived in the Ida B. Wells Homes/ Community since I was born in 1991 until around 2007, when my family moved to Wentworth Gardens. The neighborhood was dangerous in a way, but every place has it's flaws. I actually miss it! 😊
My potna rondell got paralyzed out there around that time... the police ran into the car he was prkd outside in... I used to be all up thru there those years.. they used to put the dumpsters in the street so the bd's couldn't just ride thru there on no dumb shit... I remember all that... those was the days!!!
I lived not too far from the Gardens been there before and after they did it. It’s better now and I remember Robert Taylor projects when I was little. My people live down the street. They moved people out quick and seen them torn the buildings down, but last time I visited Chicago still nothing there just a field. I miss home.
His info is all the way off 🤣🤣
Murdi North aka DaLaceGod the catagory is way off
Wayyyyyy off, Cabrni and Robert Taylor should have been way closer to the top.
When are you gonna do DC?
+Mysquad A video on dangerous neighborhoods in DC would be redundant. It would be like a video explaining that fire is hot.
Still it would be good
Sout east dc berry farmes/bennet rd
Nigga fuck D.C
Nigga fuck u the mid city bears and the nigga in ya picture
I used to live in the Dearborn Homes and Stateway. Stayed a little bit in Rockwell Gardens on Maddison as well. What up Dolla and Velvet!!!
You didn't mention Parkway Gardens (O Block) or Harold Ickes Homes..plus since you like to mention what project that certain celebrities come from or in the case of Baltimore's Mculloh homes and "THE WIRE" it would have been nice if you mentioned the show Good Times with Cabrini Green..ijs
I use to live in Cabrini greens projects
In my city tulsa apache manor makes it on the news
What about that building on 41st@prairie..straigt jungle,warzone..couldnt even walk to the sto'..it was so crazy..low key that 1 building should have been on this list
MR. MCKETHAN naw that’s the lonely bldg...4120
I went to Harvard with that fellow wearing the R.I.P. Scooby shirt...
I knew I recognized him.
6:02 ❌😂😭.... MAN!!!!
I love that part
6:01 😭😭 this shit got me deaddddd
U better come to Miami ,No Orleans , SC, Memphis south get it popping patna
whole family grew up in chicago, ida b. wells, robert taylor, and parkway gardens
"peculiar reinterpretation of pizza" lol
This list must've been made backwards. Lol...Im from Chicago and some are debatable as far as the ranking.
Cabrini green baby! 1117 n. cleveland. Went to jenner right across the street. Byrd was across the field. Used to love going to jets and the downtown store.
Yes I use to live in Robert Taylor Homes! In a place called The Hole, because of the last three buildings forming a half circle! It was something else, it got worse from the time I was there!
Talk about modern day this is a horrible video on Chicago
why isnt parkway garden on this list? wasnt oblock ranked most violent like a few years ago?
Because those are apartments not cha projects
Parkway and Wentworth gardens
Good times brought me here
ill be moving to Bronzeville projects soon to see the boys!💸
Been to every single one 😂
Wow, just saw this. many of these facts are a little jaded, for one the first entry of cabrini is now considered near north area, one of the most changed areas in chicago. it is now upper class and a beautiful area about 65 to 70% white and not much crime at all alot of tourist go out in this area. most of the areas on this list have been transformed. someone has not been to chicago in a long time!! many of these areas are now housing 6 figure earners. check the internet for current photos of these areas. type in their current community names because even that has changed. near north , gold coast wicker park areas that use to be war zones they no longer are.
trell40 white people took over all our areas and claimed it as there on, once the city made it fancy. You couldn’t pay them to come around or live there before hand PERIOD
I lived in Lathrop Homes Hoyne & Diversey until 2006
My family from the Henry Horner Homes, the (Hornetz) 2051 & 2111
The definition of insanity- keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results!
The definition of slavery is to make one to perceive he or she ate good, even if it was crumbs from the rich man table ....
Bro y’all don’t even be from Chicago making these videos
Somebody made a video of Milwaukee using incorrect jargon.... Non Milwaukee pics to describe the city.. Dude sit down not being a local making vids
So whats your point?? They asses can make videos but are not.
@@shayshaysherree girl shut up. U make a video then.
JenJen Teflon 😂😂😂😂
@darionchiestder I’m tryna tell u these mfs b fascinated with our city
17 years in the Robert Taylor projects 4946 State Street from 1960 to 1977 4 years in Ida B Wells 1956 to 1960.
I was born and raised in the IDA B WELLS from 1975 to 1985 and Wentworth Gardens ,AG wild wild 100 block 15 block 17
WTF😳??? DEARBORN HOMES!! Ranked #1 and CABRINI GREEN #10? I grew up in Robert Taylor projects And I had family that lived in Stateway Gardens. Growing up in the 60’s, I remember them being very nice clean and well taken care of. My mother worked for IIT and she used to tell me that the plan always was to tear down those housing projects. Many of them were built on prime real estate. With the overcrowding of the Northside, white people want that Southside badly. that is why the city allowed those projects to deteriorate. Many of those people moved out to the far Southside into neighborhoods that were once high middle-class areas for black people. And now that’s where all the crime and shootings are taking place now.
The good news is with the end of redlining, the general increase in living standards, and regional integration the next generation of Chicago residents will grow up in a more open and mobile environment. The South side will lose much of its historic black character. But Chicago residents will tend to define themselves through cultural signifiers more than skin color
King Kennedy estates Cleveland Ohio Luther east park we need more busing it worked great all Rhodes scholars now running our city's
Stop lying bitch I'm from cedar in Cleveland,shit is still fucked up
Not the Dearborn’s that place ain’t even seem bad when I visited it last year
I hope he do Memphis housing projects. I know they're all gone but you can still find information about them on the internet
Who governs Chicago?
My family from the ickes and stateway no limit building
We used to slide to stateway all the way from out west!! got off on 43rd an pershing to get us a sack of tht (no limit) for the sawbuck ... I was 16 then so this was like 98' smh, thinkin back on it now those was some dangerous missions we was goin on fkn around in stateway Joe, I'm tlkn 2:30/3 in the mrng sometimes later!!! the building's was still lit at those hours.. kids used to still be outside an everything... I miss those days!!! you jus gotta be from the chi to relate I guess!!!
@@complexsoul5730 facts bro my fam ran the no limit building cant say no names but i saw alot
@@Imichaelperry I'm alrdy knowin you seen some shit... we did every time we went out there... and the police didnt come in there period.. fam those buildings wasn't nothin to play wit.. 😂😂😂🤣 we used to sit in the car arguing bout who turn it was to go in that bitch.... I used to hit tht dark ass stairwell to the right.. all yu could see was arms reachin down holdin them big ass G packs an yo ass bet not grab more than you paid for neither lol...
Cabrini green is now Xavier building. Luxury living, my girlfriend’s brother used to lived there super expensive and some low income people also live there. So the mixed income idea does came to fruition. Shit is crazy how that changed.
Damn I remember as a kid growing up in the Village, fosco park, right across the big field. Man it was fun but scary at the same time. All my family is from the A.B.L.A projects. These living conditions fucked up alot ppl mental. Its not normal living that way its sad.
The way we live our lives on this earth determines where we going when we die, either heaven or hell there is no in between. We can't be down here on earth living for the devil and expect to make it to heaven. Read in you all HOLY BIBLES Galatians chapter 5 verses 16-23 and 2 Timothy chapter 3 and Leviticus chapter 19 verse 28. And if we reject GOD'S word we reject GOD HIMSELF
I've been in all of them projects facts But I'm from the Abla homes, still can't understand how the Harold ickes did not make the list
lloyd johnson Exactly
On Unknown he trippin lol.
GDz versus Mickey Cobras
True dat! The Ickes should have been first on the list.
I used to live in lathrop Holmes as a kid and go back from time to time got a lot of extended family and friends that shit is dead as fuck now I don’t even know how they ended up on the list
Why was the "Teen Town CVL" sign shown as part of the Ida B. Wells housing project which it is not.... its from 16th st & Lawndale on the Westside... Used to pass it everyday going to HS in the late 60's traveling through CVL territory..
I'm a true Flint$tone.In 1984 when Flint football players went on visits to Colleges and met up at a party, we would yell out, Flint$tones in the house. To let you know it's more than one, School representing.And we would have each other's backs. Class of 85 I love that time.
My whole family from the wild 100s in the city and got a aunt from Cabrini greens but when you gone do Memphis or Nashville or anywhere in the south shit kcrakcin bro fr
1627 Interstate I used to stay in Clarksville Tennessee I know how it is down there but I'm from the wild Hunt Chicago all day long sad but true that I missed a project though we have fun
Van Johnson Please unsubscribe me from all future emails
3651 South Federal
Rich Noble 3919 s federal
If all the former & current housing projects bordered on each other it would be the 2nd largest city in Illinois.
I grew behind Vulture City 49th South State on Swan.
I will never live in a city/state where I can’t legally carry a gun.
Jay
you are allowed to conceal and carry in Illinois, but there are a lot of gun free zones so yeah basically it’s a no carry city/state lol
CARLOS MARTINEZ That just mean I wouldn’t move there unless I was joining the police department.
Move to Alaska!
Wait so the kids are the Only ones that can carry 1000 round clips with hollow points
Do it “illegally” like most people do, 2nd amendment rights right ?
Stateway 35th krazy💯
This is the real reason that there is a lot of deaths in Chicago. They built huge communities then demolished them, which spread the community to other communities and still have to attend a school that was not of their peers. Scary situation but with no jobs or structure for the youth how can it become better
I got 2 flat tires on Division St. In front of cabrini-green - this is when cell phones 1st came out. No tow truck company would come out and help me.
Lol