Cabrini-Green & Parkside of Old Town, Chicago, IL -- House & Home

From the National Building Museum's exhibition House & Home (www.nbm.org/exh....
Cabrini-Green / Parkside of Old Town, Chicago, IL
Established: 1942 / 2006
Housing Units: approx. 3,607 / 800
Size: 70 / 18 acres
Architect: Holsman, Burmeister, et al (1942); A. Epstein and Sons (1958); PACE Associates (1962) / Fitzgerald Associates Architects
Developer: Chicago Housing Authority / Holsten Development

[@noraarmenta1986]

Thank God I got out of Cabrini. I moved to Arizona. and now I own my house I have a very good job where I get pay really good. My kids go to the best school. Thank God I got out of poverty. And crime. I'm really happy.

[@commonsense3921]

Now you probably can’t even afford to live where Cabrini-Green use to be at.

[@willpower3317]

@Shantel Scott so you have to come from the projects to be successful? That mentality creates low standards and doesn’t hold parents accountable for making the types of poor decisions that put their family there in the first place.

[@Gunshinzero]

@@willpower3317 I agree that sometimes people get it confused between making it because of something vs making it despite something. I feel the same way the OP does since I don't live in New Orleans anymore. That being said, I think people make poor decisions or have bad things happen in life that keep them there, but that's not usually what got them there in the first place. A lot of the people who lived through the worst times had parents or grandparents that have been living in those areas (not just public housing) since way before it got bad. I don't think it's very common for people who didn't grow up in rough areas to move there as adults even when they do make bad decisions. They usually have family to fall back on in the relatively safe area they grew up in. People in the bad areas are usually from there. Many don't even know what normal is. Edit: Needed to clean up some sentences.

[@AmandaMuu]

@@Gunshinzero I have usually lived in poor usually drug areas since 18. I've been determined to keep the freedom of living on my own and not with family. Now, I live in a mixed income neighborhood without the drug activity and crime, and I'm buying my house.

[@clintonlehmann4369]

Good for you!!

[@yecatseel1320]

0:48 Is my memory that will never leave my brain. 1121 Larabee. 4th floor apt 407 Although changes needed to be made and so much tragic happened there, It was My History. It shaped and molded me. I'm kinda sad that I can never go back as a Adult to reflect. I'm happy to know it was documented. RIP Cabrini and to the Lives that was lost there.

[@newchicagosfuture6060]

Hi, Yecats, This is Ruolin, a UIC Ph.D. ABD doing the research on Cabrini Green, is it possible for us to have a brief interview with you through zoom? Really looking forward to listening to your experience.

[@gorgeouslady5612]

Good Times Any time you meet a payment Good Times Any time you need a friend Good Times Any time you're out from under Not getting hassled, not getting hustled Keepin' your head above water Making a way when you can Temporary lay offs Good Times Easy credit rip offs Good Times Scratchin' and surviving Good Times Hanging in and jiving Good Times Ain't we lucky we got 'em Good Times!.

[@AnahataMaryjane]

omg before i read the comments i started singing this in my head, thanks for the lyrics i never knew them (haven't seen the show since i was in the single digits)

[@TyreseBuie]

Bad times

[@hectorlopez6529]

HANGIN IN CHOW LINE GOOD TIMES

[@gizmodude6250]

That's what dave chappelle said too lol

[@lavettehammons]

Its "Hanging in the chow line"

[@floorpuncher3280]

It’s such happy upbeat music then it stops, immediately cutting to reality.

[@1Radioriot]

This video was DYYYNOOMIITE!

[@myfriendscallmelee]

😂😂😂😂

[@hatednyc]

Looks like the start of an 80's sitcom

[@eeyebeats]

Yeah it was used for good times I think

[@adape0884frank]

This is one area of Chicago that I would love to go and see one day.

[@peppernightlife8447]

Paco Aldape I’ve seen it 20 years ago there’s nothing left just a building with drug lords running it to the ground chasing the good out ,

[@81sexislim]

@@peppernightlife8447 Too late. They shut it dwn but u probably wouldn't made it far lol danger zone

[@SeventhCereal]

They have built up many capitalist apartment buildings recently. It's fairly gentrified now. No idea why anyone would be investing in this backwards democrat-run city. They are probably losing money hand over fist with Covid-19.

[@bigkev2084]

Cabrini Green was used in the opening scene of Good times right?

[@MrGorehammer]

yes and also candyman

[@leesmith5925]

kevin chagnot Candyman.

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

@@leesmith5925 They filmed Candyman at Cabrini Green

[@kachoo2135]

Cabrini Green was the setting for the Good Times TV show. I was a very big fan of the show

[@KennethDAstonJr]

Nice building and love how the area is looking, one thing that saddens me, they kick out all the folks in the community, raise the taxes, and they call that progress? Damn shame

[@RETROGEMS]

They call that *gentrification*. The honest & innocent tenants of the old Cabrini Green deserved a quality place to live in. Instead, from what I've learned, many if not most were dispersed & their neighborhood 'rehabilated' for a bunch of upper middle-class Chicagoans. For all the hell the *good* folks of the projects went through, that seems beyond unfair that others are now benefiting & thriving in their old neighborhood.

[@tyshondrabarnes7631]

The old Chicago IL times are gone l am from the Southside of Chicago IL born yet raised

[@dbrown9495]

Another good concept! This takes half the burden off the government

[@LatoyaLbqueenL114]

Good times filming location rip John Amos

[@droburna6090]

Really all they did was move the people from the pjs to the southside and now those neighborhoods are more dangerous because the gangs from the projects come in and start fighting for turf with the gangs that already run that area. Even that section where cabrini used to be is pretty ghetto , they didn't improve a goddamn thing.

[@odell2970]

If you don't stay within the loop of Chicago or residencial suburban neighborhood of Chicago then you are not safe. South and west sides of Chicago are far worse than any part.

[@devoradamaris]

🫂 Respect.

[@dc9511]

Yes. It was based at Cabrini. Good times

[@tubefreakmuva]

Hows parksides crime rate now? Chicago looks peak at the moment

[@babylaylacottoharris9860]

Miss good times

[@davids736]

That tune is at the start is awesome!! It think it is for the video, can't find it anywhere

[@dawghe]

Notice a pattern with the color of person it deteriorates with

[@vikingkrigare5329]

Looks pretty nice compared to public housing here in Europe

[@StandStrong614]

I promise this place was a thousand times more dangerous than anything that you have ever seen or thought of..

[@vikingkrigare5329]

@@StandStrong614 haha I know that place was very dangerous but there are some really really bad places here as well. I buy that it was probably worse than any place here but that "ever seen or thought of" is a little far away.

[@vikingkrigare5329]

@@StandStrong614 i forgot about places here like Sarajevo and Belfast back in the days, some streets way more dangerous than any place in America.

[@Phantom1963]

That's great 🤩

[@briansheil9763]

Cabrini-Green. The home of GLOW wrestlers, The Soul Patrol.

[@charlesmullins3238]

Now there’s a flashback….member many nights watchin glow and Rhonda sheer on up all night…

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

Rip young one.

[@gloriaf2341]

To me combines to Regent Park and those buildings around Cabbagetown.

[@paulstevens6043]

Why are they acting like there is no choice but to live in public housing? Or depend on the government to pay for their food and homes? There are hundreds of thousands of poor and working class immigrants from Mexico and Puerto Rico and Costa Rica and Honduras living in Chicago without government support. These people are being interviewed as if this group should be living on government support as a way of life. There are millions of black people who are living middle class lives. And there are black millionaires and billionaires. In Chicago. How are they doing it and not these people?

[@Phantom1963]

Maybe the poor blunt smokers can rub elbows with the rich at that Starbucks 🤔

[@ericwright2594]

rip to every one who n cabrini green

[@ineziafrazier7741]

That's where I live and I still live there

[@albagubrath1]

Looks like paradise compared to were im from(glasgow UK)

[@Juniebug5]

If you don't provide services and training to assist people in moving out of temporary housing, they won't go. Without public assistance, they are stuck in this kind of lifestyle no matter where they live. The residents knew living in projects would not be temporary. Several generations have lived in nothing but public housing. . I don't know why the government didn't know it.

[@greta6860]

It looked like a jail smh

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

Dantrell on his way 30 long years ago was seven

[@Mrzposas14]

❤️🙏🏽❤️

[@adedamolaadeleke6228]

Seriously heartbreaking for a young child

[@adedamolaadeleke6228]

Too sad

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

Dantrell Davis and Girl X is what I think of when I think of Cabrini

[@hirthhirth]

not sure where racism gets you...how it makes you feel better...what it accomplishes...just seems like a waste of time and energy...

[@Nick-AngelpeodSeaxisc]

1:06 Even though there was a lot of turmoil and violence, the community came together..........to perpetrate more turmoil and violence.

[@dennisalexanderson6975]

Looks like every city in Europe. They built those houses in thousands between 1960-1980

[@shannonmalayajones7649]

Garages as alley homes for youth

[@lamontbennett1549]

how da fuc day do that 2 c g. dat shit look nice great job chicago

[@zyloooooo]

What has happened? Did this idea of newer apartments that are mixed w both full rent and low income work? What happened to all the residents after all these buildings were torn down?

[@eeyebeats]

Shipped to far west suburbs w no support. (Bolingbrook area.) Not much is heard from them after unfortunately.

[@videovixen203]

is this real?

[@ineziafrazier7741]

I'm finna go back to parkway

[@dawnlee866]

I couldn't imagine saying it's going to be weird living around white people. I'm glad my Mom showed me other cultures. She put in racially mixed school.

[@Mari000]

Well that’s how it is in some parts of Chicago. There is some segregation.

[@devoradamaris]

🕊🌐🕊

[@RETlREDAVIATOR]

"Mixed income housing" means poor people living were they do not deserve to!! Somebody had to say it!!

[@msebonyjupiterstellar6309]

Candy man, candy man, CANDY MAN 😮😅

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

looks like Glasgow in Scotland

[@faden2bleu]

'Incredible view of downtown''? I want an 'Incredible view of green grass and trees'.

[@michaelabanks8786]

Where’s candy man👀👀👀

[@avoidtalknn7421]

Gentrification

[@thornbird6768]

I SUMMARIZE VIDEOS Yep , I bet most of the original tenants didn’t get to come back !!

[@sneakerheadonlys]

Didn't help just spread the gangs out

[@rayramos2240]

CANDY MAN WAS THERE

[@shannonmalayajones7649]

Save this command consoles

[@stephenmoerlein2576]

Wasn't this already tried in the 1970s in South Commons? Unsuccessful...

[@jordandavis1225]

This is terrible! He sits here like half of those residents didn’t end he homeless because they didn’t have a place for them to go

[@travisstubbs2748]

Sad I know wat da enemy doing

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

candy man County

[@bmoredru316]

Nope not in Chicago

[@jlmoss5154]

Regentrification...

[@lamontbennett1549]

Young thug stole my image now he trying kill me Kurt Sosa rap videos on KZbin

[@chriseckelberg7467]

Its a ghetto now

[@dvgayle1]

We paid money for these people to live on tax payers expense and they repaid us with violence and apathy.

[@yecatseel1320]

Get your mind right, Stupid.

[@epitaph3988]

Wtf are we supposed to do, let them starve? If it weren't for those government checks there would've been rioting and mass violence, as tends to happen when droves of impoverished people can no longer afford to live. Maybe we should solve the conditions that lead to systemic poverty instead of blaming it on some nebulous moral failure.

[@sebastianschrader838]

8th grader level take

[@StandStrong614]

You were paying that money regardless and not everybody was violent. Many of these people wanted nothing more than to get out of there.

[@Kosko-uv9yr]

@@sebastianschrader838Many of them moved to Des Moines, now the crime is rising in Des Moines. Many of them moved to Lansing, Illinois, and now Lansing is a filthy ghetto. Sierra Leone, London, Paris or Chicago-genetics do not change.

[@shannonmalayajones7649]

Idoc banking merge with coding for vending machinesvthen to ATM's

[@BrothaShareef]

A lot of gentrification going on