The Last Cabrini-Green Highrise Demolition, Pt. 2
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2011
- For this installment, amid the wrecking dust, I wanted to concentrate on the details of vanished lives: interior wall graffiti, ceiling fans, multiple floors of exposed electrical panels -- in short, everything but the kitchen sink.
I lived in Gabrini Green, during 1981 and it was a living nightmare.
You would hear terrifying levels of crime lore, such a "raper man" waiting for women in the dark stairwells.
Did Raper Man become "Rapper Man?"
I used to live there in 1963. I did not have a good experience living there. Most of the time it was in fear from there to school, Schiller School was in the back of the projects. Only blacks and hispanics lived there at the time.
Wow! I had no idea that hispanics still lived there as late as 1963. Did your family live in the townhouses or the highrises?
artistmac We lived in the high rises on 714 West Division St. when I was six years old. My aunt and uncle lived on the first floor, we lived on the upper level in the right corner of the building shown here in the video.
Desert Eagle .357
It’s safe to say no one had a good experience living there
Bro where there’s blacks us Hispanics will be there rent is cheap and we make cute babies yolo lmaooo
Concrete and rebar. No steal beams. Slapped together like a rush job
Thousands of buildings in Chicago are constructed with concrete and rebar, going all the way back to the 1920's. It's sturdy construction. But it wasn't until CHA director Elizabeth Wood was forced out in the 50's that the CHA started building forests of high-rises and gradually stopped caring about its residents. And a federal policy, proposed by Sen. Edward Brooke, that made working residents pay a percentage of their incomes in rent instead of the previous flat rate caused them to leave. It was the beginning of the end.
It a shame that the violence will only go infest another neighborhood. Knocking down those buildings will not change the attitudes that destroyed them any many lives too.
Nope
Great footage. Thank you.
lot of good folks got hurt or killed in these buildings..good ridence
Everybody moved out of that building before it was demolished.
@@kewanw16 he means during it.. read it again
@@kewanw16 lmao
Your white you don't give a damn about a place like this
Athletics08 you’re fucking dumb and racist as hell. And this is coming from a black man. Peace
JJ and the Evans family refused to leave and were killed during the demolition.
+madisonelectronic The Evanses lived in the red-and-white mid-rise buildings. Nice try, though. ;)
madisonelectronic that was so funny lol
If you ever watched the last episode of Good Times, you would know that JJ and company actually did make it out of the reds
Too bad they didn't demolish it while everyone was inside
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It took them way too long to demolish cabrini green.
Its so heart breaking the residents were forced tonlive in such horriblr conditions. They deserved so much better.
It wasn't that way at the beginning, at Robert Taylor, Stateway or Cabrini. At Taylor, when it opened in 1962, you could be fined $5 for walking on the grass. Changes in CHA management were mostly to blame.
Contrast this with Lake Meadows and Prairie Shores on King Drive, middle-class African-American highrises that are almost 70 years old, and are great places to live. But Draper and Kramer is a tough, proactive management company, and tenants have expectations about safety. The former Pershing School, now an Aramark depot, was the neighborhood school for LM and PS, and was consistently one of the top ten achieving public schools in Chicago.
Lived here and I miss it not everyone had bad experience here raised my children here as well every place has a not so good spot but Cabrini was and always will be my missed home🥲
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What building did they film candyman in?
Yay,now they need to do the ones in New York
@artistmac Because the Goldcoast is down the road?
I'm from Chicago born and raised there so I got to see the memories I'm from the Rockwell area c h a housing project I'm happy is gone
I ain’t my family lost they home. Whaccu sayin is bushi cuh. Families lost they houses can’t be sayin shit like that
@@laccless go get an education you ignorant fuck. Your spelling is brutal.
They can place blame on whomever, nothing hides the fact that it takes righteous individuals to make a real home. Allow vices to come into one’s life, and you will always receive horrific outcomes. Always.
grate job
End of an era
I wonder why they used a wrecking ball and the mechanical monster to take it down...instead of imploding it like The robert Taylor homes??
They used a wrecking ball on the Taylor Homes, and every other CHA project that was torn down. The only CHA buildings that were imploded were the Lakefront Properties near 42nd and Lake Park. Nearby Metra Electric trains and car traffic on Lake Shore Drive had to be stopped during the implosion. The city got lucky -- the wind was coming from the west that day, and the dust cloud blew out over Lake Michigan.
@@artistmac REALLY?? I learned something today. Usually, however, implosion is the Lesser of Evils when it comes to dust. The wrecking ball (or machine) takes Months.
As with most gov't programs, instead of selling it to someone who'd restore it and use it gainfully, some insider cronies get the contract to - oh, so slowly - demo it.
Which insiders got the land or the contract to rebuild as a "new, improved" project?
Two very good questions.
Dope history
Damn that building was a complete dump!
When they were first built, they were showplaces. Poor management by CHA did them in, as happened with so many other CHA properties.
What happened to the school I went to Schiller
From a Chicago Reader article from 2013: "In 2009, CPS closed Schiller School and sent its students to Jenner. Officials then converted the old Schiller building into Skinner North, another selective-enrollment school. There used to be five public neighborhood grammar schools in the Cabrini area: Byrd, Schiller, Truth, Manierre, and Jenner. Now there are only
two, Manierre and Jenner. "And we're both on the closing list," says Bell." According to the Board's website, www.cps.edu, Skinner North is still in Schiller's old building.
artistmac wow thanks for the info
I went there too in 1963.
They had room and a half to implode the buildings. Why tear it down this way?
With implosion, asbestos-laden dust would have gone everywhere. Same with Robert Taylor, Stateway and Ickes. The city got lucky with the Lakefront Properties, which were imploded in 1998. They had street sweepers ready to go on adjoining streets, just in case, but the dust cloud blew out over the lake.
One of the best things the city did.....tearing that shitty area down. Now the area looks nice!!!
It does but now the city have a thousand murders this year and doing this played a part in that but I agree the area looks really nice
No it didn’t help what would help is improving standard of living
No they moved animals to good neighborhoods and now the whole city is shit
@artistmac I agree with you 100% on that. But why did they build Cabrini when they didnt have the money to maintain them? I saw a documentry that said during its creation they where told it would cost 1m per building per year. This happened during the Richard M. Daley days.
If you Google that, you may find the answer. I will tell you some history so get ready for a story about a high rise ghetto called cabrini green. There was more than one of those buildings, in the 1920s Richard decided that he didn't like this slummish area called "little hell" it was a slum that only the poor would live in, Richard's idea sounded crazy but in the 40s his idea wasn't crazy anymore but the city preferred low rise buildings, the city didn't have too much money so they went with Richard's idea, it was a place where people who were saving up for a house could live in until they had enough money to buy a house, now in the 50s and 60s Chicago went through a great recession had to do budget cuts to everything so the gangsters decided it would be a good idea to move in to these buildings and create families, then in the 90s they started to demolish these buildings and they were gone by 2011, today some low rise buildings replace those buildings.
Well, now I wouldn't have to worry about a bullet going through my head if I hung out in that area, but the crime spread to other parts of town so I might need to avoid those parts.
@Charles Harper BE NICE, or else...
When we started taken the projects down around Chicago in 2000 an this was before most people knew what section8 was,people would ask me "where are all the residents going?,id tell them "to a neighborhood near you"
It may look nice and better but it’s still crime in that area
You spoke much, much too soon.
Greetings,
I am writing to request permission to use some of your footage of the Cabrini-Green demolition. If granted permission, about 20 seconds of video would be used for air on DC Today on BNC. Your burned-in logo will not be obscured.
Hi, Krystene, I was out of town -- if your deadline hasn't passed, absolutely, you can use the footage. Just let me know when it's going to run. I'm always interested in public housing history.
I don't see any hard core gang members now
You called?
Go to Garfield park or englewood you’ll find em
@@Lavish_Clipz Garfield park not far not from mo town
I don't understand. Why not use a airplane to demolish??
Har-dee-har. The area around Cabrini was surrounded by new construction in 2011, when this was shot. Developers couldn't wait to get their hands on that land. So implosion wouldn't have worked, either.
Why wouldn't they detonate the explosives while everyone was inside sleeping?
You're a riot, Alice.
Grand idear
Racism at its best..sad I'm glad I don't live in Chicago
Ask your brother Timothy McVeigh oh I forgot the needle 💉💉💉 his a**
@@tashonnamoore2223 yes but I lived in New York. A sock full of Quarters won't be paying your subway fare
Wow they did it slow style n not like Vegas
The only CHA buildings they imploded were the Lakefront Properties, and they had to shut down busy Lake Shore Drive and stop nearby commuter trains to do it. They had street sweepers ready to go, in case the dust settled on nearby residential streets. They got lucky -- the cloud of dust blew out over Lake Michigan. Chicago is too crowded to implode highrises, especially the 28 buildings of Robert Taylor Homes, with the Rock Island commuter tracks and the Dan Ryan Expressway a block away.
@@artistmac WOW that sounds like it impacted the the city like a horror story nightmare. So this did not planned out smoothly for the citizens of Chicago?
@@djhg84 In the beginning, from the late '30's when CHA was founded through the '50, it was fine. When Robert Taylor Homes opened in 1962, you could be find $5 for walking on the grass. Somewhere after that, the CHA decided to be one of the worst absentee landlords in history, to the point where drugs were being dealt in front of CHA highrises even as they were being demolished. Except for the land where Cabrini Green was, most CHA property where homes were torn down, like LeClaire Courts, Robert Taylor, Stateway Gardens and Ida B. Wells, has yet to be built on.
I’ve never seen a wrecking ball being used funny I see it here in this trash building 😂
Why didn't they use TNT? Not the network, the explosive. Wait, they could of used TNT while airing it on TNT, Buaaa-Haaa! (ahem) Sorry.
There were too many surrounding buildings, most of them being built as Cabrini was being torn down, that would have been affected by doing implosions. The CHA Lakefront Properties were imploded in 1998, but they had to stop traffic on the adjacent Metra Electric commuter rail line and Lake Shore Drive for most of the morning of the implosion. The City had street sweepers ready to go to clean up any dust on surrounding streets, but they got lucky -- the wind was coming from the west, and the dust cloud went floating out over the lake.
@@artistmac Damn Mac! That sounds good to me, lol! But thanks for the explanation. Do you work there or live in the area? U seem to have deep info on the situation. Thanks!
@@sacman68 I stay involved in community events, both where I live and in other communities. It's easier to get things done when elected officials and local police know you on sight, in a good way. I've posted video of the demolition of the last Robert Taylor, Stateway Gardens and Cabrini highrises as a record, so people don't forget they existed and who created them. And with the former Cabrini, where the original 1942 CHA townhouses, barely occupied, sit across the street from high-priced homes and where the infamous address 1157 N. Cleveland is now the parking lot of a luxury midrise, it would be easy for people to forget, and for younger people to not even be aware.
Call me crazy but if any of the buildings are still there I would want to go there because the thing is, this is unbelievable until you see it for yourself, I'm sure all of the gangsters were flushed out due to demolition so I think I would be safe but just incase I'm wrong since I'm never right, I would bring a security team and a bullet proof vest.
They wiped out every Stateway Gardens and Robert Taylor building between 35th and 54th. And LeClaire Courts, Henry Horner, ABLA, the Cabrini Green highrises and Ickes. It would have been a great idea to make at least one into a public housing museum.
@@artistmac agreed, what if we tried high rise public housing again, if we just take care of the buildings it will work very well.
All those poor roaches 😂
this is slightly painful to watch.
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How to improve the livelihoods of the poor?
By local government following the law and properly maintain the buildings where they live?
No, blame the poor for being poor and for living in a high crime environment, neglect maintenance, blame them for not owning their homes and finally, demolish their homes.
Nobody is blaming the poor. Everywhere has poor. They don't do the things these people do to themselves and everybody else
@@nikicarrie4071 perhaps you should look carefully at what they are saying in the documentary?
if this was how the terrorists did 9 11
What is in Her place 🏗️ Today 2024 🎊 ?????
Luxury apartments. All that's left is the original Cabrini townhomes, some occupied, some vacant and fenced in.