Chicago - Cabrini Green (1989-02)

Chicago - Cabrini Green Chicago (1989-02)
Cabrini-Green Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were south of Division Street, bordered by Larrabee Street to the west, Orleans Street to the east and Chicago Avenue to the south, with the William Green Homes to the northwest.
For Educational Purposes.

[@jeffpeterson2012]

I am a life long Chicago resident and it was crazy how the Gold Coast and Cabrini Green were separated by a street. The Richest neighborhood and the poorest neighborhood next to each other. It was unreal

[@UnderPresser]

I remember driving past Cabrini one time in the dead of winter......the building closest to my car was covered in gang graffitti, some guy in one of those quilted nylon winter jackets was standing in the open door, doing his job as a lookout. There was only a great, gaping blackness behind him....the lights in the entrance foyer had been broken. I couldn't see into it at all, yet it still looked like the entrance to the 9th Circle Of Hell.

[@Rabithebengali]

nice but the real gold coast is like where the ambassador east to drake hotel, or around east oak street or maybe even some parts of lincoln park west i think. for that matter -private homes with thier own private beach east of michigan ave

[@davidlima9461]

​​@@UnderPresserthe way you described it made me feel like i was there 😂😂😂 you should write a book

[@heavenreignsupreme]

@@UnderPresser i bet there is a lot of Demons lurking in that building

[@allfacts19]

@@heavenreignsupreme All of those buildings have been torn down. The land might be haunted

[@ajaytranter2655]

That smart little boy called senque selvey is now 42 and a professional contractor for a concrete company . He’s also building projects where 1 of the buildings once was

[@littlejimmy7402]

Thank you. I had actually did a shallow search for Him, I hadn't found him yet. I'm really happy Mr. Selvey got a chance to live His own life.

[@lionelkennedy6092]

Not surprised. He sounded very sharp as a youngster.

[@chantilove7s]

I’m actually a friend of his..He’s on fb

[@ajaytranter2655]

@@chantilove7s what’s his name on there

[@user-ex1vz2zt3h]

Glad to know, may he spread the word his knowledge of poverty and hopelessness and the dangers and social problems that go with it, and that chain can be broken, and never loose ones humanity and hope.

[@davide.b8027]

That 10 year old is too wise for his age. And very well-spoken. I hope he was able to make it out.

[@thisgame2]

Almost like he was coached

[@futiousstyles3315]

Kanye was pretty young then, bet he had no idea where hed be at now!

[@rilloreviewer]

@@thisgame2 just because you weren't well spoken at 10 doesn't mean it's impossible for someone else to be....

[@JennyJeong425]

@@futiousstyles3315 He said "well spoken", not "certifiably insane".

[@Exposingyou]

@@futiousstyles3315 kanye aint from da hood doe 😂 his parents was professors and he lived in china as a kid. He only TOOK a pic infront cabrini

[@kevinkeller5596]

It’s heartbreaking to watch a snapshot of the last moments of that young man’s life and his mother’s shock and horror. It’s a reminder that these statistics are real human beings cut short forever. I don’t have solutions and it is still happening today.

[@darthralik9835]

bruh she saw the camera and forgot her son was on the elevator what u mean lol

[@myyoutubechannel3161]

What happened to that young man ?

[@bperez9066]

@@darthralik9835right, she looked like a drug user.

[@kirkfreeman6913]

They made it a prison, then abandoned it and then razed it to dust. Perfect metaphor for anything government does.

[@GinaOhNo]

Then they built something worse to take its place.

[@wasiegwebu3371]

Dude died as they got him into the elevator, May his Soul Rest in Peace

[@techdiva4cybersecurity]

So sad those are his last moments on this KZbin video

[@MrKneri22]

His mom standing there shell-shocked asking is my son alive. Doesn't seem like reality.

[@sle_epytight]

He died right before they pushed him in.

[@Robpasq1959]

My heart goes out to those kids. Seeing more of the misery and crime than then they’ve had to. They’re being deprived and cheated of a happy, safe childhood.

[@MooreInteresting]

They would all be adults now.

[@duaneperrin150]

We made it out ...and we doing good in life these days ! Trust me when i tell you this lifestyle held us back in alot of ways and took alot to recover from

[@bigmike1850]

Who the little black kids? That’s all their older siblings shooting up the neighborhood.

[@2Phaktz]

Would that same empathy extend to the now adults?

[@Splashhh_Ganggg]

Exactly why so many grow up traumatized (including me) now that I’m older all I wanna do is have the childhood I never had

[@ImDorkyGirl]

So glad to see a mother put her kids first and a father being a father. Well wishes to them all!

[@MrMiD.Life.Crisis]

Well said. Some people take that attitude for granted while some have never heard of it. Hope you're good.

[@kekejohnson687]

That was the very thing that broke home's up. Welfare system is a beast. It took working out of people hearts

[@chrisreynolds2410]

Good point and a lot of times if the father was in the picture they would yank the benefits…….I have my mom FOODSTAMP IDENTIFICATION from the 80’s near my front door.

[@suzuki7502k]

If she were putting her kids first, she would’ve delayed having kids until she can provide a better, stable place to reside!

[@nik-at-nite]

@@kekejohnson687 Unfortunately, her husband was an addict. It was already a broken home.

[@ronaldwilson9620]

I lived in Cabrini Greens Projects ( 1121 N. Larrabbe St. #'s 205 and 508) from 80 - 86 and IT WAS HELL. I was eleven years old when i first encountered being recruited by gangs. I had to know everything about the different gangs, HAD to even dress like them, learned everything from them in order to survive. It was very hard to play on the playgrounds let alone walking to the store seeing people getting shot or stabbed. There was violence inside the buildings as well i almost was shot trying to get in the door from the rain of bullets. Fighting everyday bcuz i HAD to even if i ask to go after i declared that i was neutral meaning not in a gang & didn't want trouble. Guys didn't care they wanted to hurt people so there's a rule that you can call it how YOU WANT IT meaning that since i had no weapons i called H👊NDS and handled my business. There's situations where i did that and still got shot at. Even going to see other relatives that lived in another building was dangerous. If they didn't know you, guns in Yo face while others are running out the building with guns. I remember when Mayor Bryne moved into Cabrini Greens in 81 and things still was bad, but she DID get the gangs to TRUCE which was the BEST time bcuz i wasn't getting guns in my face, but people was still fighting until June 26 when one gang didn't want to abide anymore and attacked 1158 N. Cleveland St. building in which i SAW it all go down. The WORST 4th of July EVER having to light fireworks @ 5:30 in the afternoon..... Due to The War that was to come that night and had to fight to light MY OWN STUFF... Having to live with 🐁s, 🪳s, 🐀s even though we KEPT IT A1 clean and I DON'T MISS the horrible smell of dead bodies, pest spray, blood, pissy elevators and stairwells filled with graffiti, bullet casings, needles, and the sounds of gunfire all day long.

[@ratedthemonster]

GOD is good brother glad you made it out I’m from the last good generation born 87 I seen a lot too brother god bless US all

[@ronaldwilson9620]

@@ratedthemonster Hell yeah bro it was too much to deal with and i have cptsd from all the traumatic situations from daily living.

[@kevinforeman4485]

Cabrini Greene did just what it was designed for. Hope U made it out.

[@annahgibbus8]

​@@ronaldwilson9620 I'm sorry you went through all that. You sure do write well though. It was like I was there.

[@boscopappas234]

The Jane Byrne thing was unreal. I understand why she did it, but it ended up being worse because the optics of the mayor of a major city having to leave a housing project because it was too violent. Fun fact: when Byrne moved into the building they enforced the doors to her building by welding them shut. When that door closed only the occupant could open it again. When Byrne moved out the gang leaders adopted the door technique for all their buildings. Cops couldn’t get in, LOL.

[@ziggysmalls9329]

Little guy is real smart,and articulate.I truly hope he has thrived in the positive

[@snekktikhays1780]

he became a gang member sadly but he's not in that life anymore i hope he gets that house in Beverly hills

[@randymoss7858]

Breaks my heart for little man

[@ziggysmalls9329]

Mines too

[@ravishingrickrude3721]

Unfortunately, he ended up bangin and is now in prison where he's been for a long time.

[@ButtersCCookie]

You can be smart all you want to be. No opportunity or agency....you can be smart all day. People should read more. Population is controlled by these one in a million or inflated dissonance. You're born poor, you die poor. But why would you work so hard if you thought you could be CEO. They give you a lie and you die to protect it. Those are nepotism and happily enslaved puppets. Does it surprise you? Everyone has a price. What's yours?

[@eugenebridges9537]

Mark Johnson spoke the truth because that’s exactly how it went. After Cabrini was long gone the same issues still exist

[@tonecamp565]

Stg

[@ceobigspoon]

I wonder how Mark Johnson grew up and what happened to him🤔

[@descolabandz8855]

because ,once they tore the project's down!! that element spread across the city !!!

[@afrolatinoyeahh9382]

Cabrini rowhouses still exist its gentrification 50% hood is still up

[@descolabandz8855]

@@afrolatinoyeahh9382 they did that across the nation!!! made all of them mixed income's!!!

[@deemz312]

I'm a life long Chicago resident..and I can tell you this place was a whole different animal.

[@witcheshour9718]

I think it was cause it was built on top of a mob dropping ground. They never took out the bodies. Like any scary movie plot u asking for trouble

[@czarmangis]

What's it like now?

[@farmerlarbear2244]

I worked in the poorest schools in the Los Angeles school district…Watts,Compton,etc..Some schools that were in the projects looked like prisons. Saddest thing is, the kids are just kids like anywhere else in the world, but by the time they hit 6-7th grade they’re all at risk to be recruited by gangs, if not earlier. And a huge chunk of them had parents who were currently still banging, and older brothers and sisters too. I’m far from Mr. White Savior, but these kids really don’t stand a chance for the most part. I hated watching those kids grow up and go from sweet little dorks as kids should be, to little hardened adults by the time they’re 12, but by that time most of them don’t really know any different. I came from a broken home, and my mom was a crazy coke then crystal addict. Thank god I had my dad and his side of the fam to show me what a lil hard work and discipline can achieve. Otherwise, I very well coulda fallen into that trap.

[@furtaco6073]

The schools resemble prisons on purpose as well. Early conditioning. But I’m glad you see it up close and personal instead of believing that we’re just born bangers and bad people, like most of the country.

[@Avogadros_number]

Thank you for your effort and public service. You really are making a difference.

[@dontfeedthetroll294]

Especially with the poor education that they were given.

[@Flatleava]

I don't like how people there don't get solution to all the stuff and kids pay first, like no body give one damn about kids and how they will have no childhood

[@deeshotcha2250]

I’m from watts too you 💯 right

[@Me-rv9pn]

Now the gangs have descended upon every neighborhood in the city. Crime in Chicago is still terrible. Nothing has changed.

[@honestsupplementsreviews2984]

Closing projects like Cabrini spread out this element. It’s not every neighborhood in the city, but a lot of them. The West and South side are still bad, but the real issue is two fold. One, the gangs are disorganized. You can right the six and fight with another gang that does too. Two, and more important, we don’t have a gang problem, we have a socioeconomic problem. No jobs, and poor as hell.

[@johnnycash2238]

For some reason they thought it was a good idea to tear down housing projects. All the crime use to be in certain areas. People knew where to stay away from. Now gangs are spread out everywhere. Forced to live close to other gang members. Obviously causes more problems.

[@str8truckn412]

The gangs were already in every hood in the city it made those gangs turn Into clicks. So one gang like the gds that used to be 1 solid gang thruout the city was broken down into thousands of clicks or sets. That happened with all the gangs tho. And gangs have no leadership now.

[@westsidefucku8853]

It’s gotten worse you should have just left them there it didn’t change anything

[@darnellcooks4932]

Shit it’s worser!!

[@rcbrown22]

The fact that Cabrini Green was such a failure is not entirely the fault of government. The people living there have some responsibility for how dangerous it is there, the graffiti etc.

[@rickredmond9847]

I mentored several kids and substituted at a school in that community for nearly 6 years. Literally dodged bullets more times than I care to remember.

[@JennyJeong425]

You are an honourable and courageous man.

[@Abril_Charlene]

Jesus that poor lady about her son 🥺

[@thisgame2]

Acting

[@katrinaewing3289]

At its finest ​@@thisgame2

[@Dee-jq2ob]

My husband's grandmother taught at a school, in south Chicago. She volunteered to teach at the, it was very dangerous (this was the 1970's) and she remembers gun fire, even walking a block to her car. She volunteered (for the job) because she wanted to try and give the children a chance. She was a principal and went back to teaching at the school.

[@str8truckn412]

South side chicago nobody refers to it aa south chicago

[@EGarza-mk2mk]

@@str8truckn412 could be referring to the actual neighborhood of South Chicago

[@jM-se9uk]

Damn nobody asked

[@shaheedmalikimuhammad1789]

South side of Chicago or the neighborhood ova east called South Chicago aka South "C"

[@Dee-jq2ob]

@@str8truckn412 oh, sorry. We live in Oregon and unfortunately I have never been to Chicago, would love to see it. All I knew about Chicago was the Bulls and The Cubs, because my husband loved them and kept telling me, both would win championships one day. I will never forget the bull’s first win or the Cubs, great day.

[@TroyHutch]

Damn my heart hurts listening to that little boy… My young brother

[@4tmmazzi886]

That's my friend's nephew He got shot like 4times and his cousin was killed in front of him in front of the Micky Cobras building like 5yrs later

[@4tmmazzi886]

Alot of Kids were ruthless Gang members by da age of 13 Even me!!! Cabrini was terrible Me & my Sister used 2 call that place "Housing, The Projection of A Mental Slave

[@plethora365]

Cousin use to live in Cabrini greens. I used to go there on the summer time to visit my family. It was like a nightmare.. worse than a nightmare. Even when you had a moments of peace you still felt this aurora of despair and just evil all around that place. It was depressing. It's truly hard to describe with words how bad it really was. I'm so glad of the people that make these type of channels and videos because I need this to help me remember... Just how bad it use to be. They call it Chiraq but really I know for a fact it was worse before Chicago was given that nic name...

[@readdeeply9278]

I was going to say... you really have to see it, and get all five senses involved to understand.

[@Whunter22]

What type of parents did u have to send u there???

[@Editnamehere]

Did you see the candy man?

[@ivanvanogre-nd1sw]

Yes. Good horror movie. Also if you can find it: Black Devil Doll From Hell, a Black horror movie set in Chicago.

[@elisamorris7742]

Growing up in the projects, it really bothers me when politicians try to convince us that the drugs and the gangs are 100% to blame for the problems, as if we got rid of them the poverty and misery would magically disappear. The projects have been around long before the opium trade and long before the bloods and the crips and the mobb ever existed. They created the ghettos and systematically trapped the poor, immigrants, minorities, and other "undesirables" in low rent public housing, and they want to keep pointing their fingers at us, saying if we would just clean up our communities the poverty would just magically disappear, and they never ever take responsibility for the roles they played in creating the projects. You see it all throughout this film, and everybody just wants to ignore the obvious issue which causes all the problems in the ghetto, which is the poverty from lack of opportunity. You see it all throughout this film and still today you have news stations across America still perpetuating this lie and pointing their fingers at everybody else.

[@4tmmazzi886]

Born and raised in this Death Trap... Not 2 mention Serial Rapist Haunted and Stalked these Projects for years Alot of Abuse and Mental Trauma 😕

[@sashazor3o]

I pray for your healing and recovery 🙏🏾

[@beckyboo1433]

That has to stay with you for life 😞 PTSD

[@cuetlaxochitl]

A rapist? So creepy.

[@couleuredgirl6314]

Omg the rapist would have had me locked in my home by 4pm. If I couldn’t move.

[@gregguralnik2512]

I used to live in Chicago, I didn't grow up in Cabrini but my father worked in Cabrini green, he was also sent to work in other projects of Chicago. A friend of mine grew up in Cabrini Green, and she has plenty of stories.

[@ebeneezerscrooge2942]

What did your dad do?

[@LReddy10025]

It's not where you're from, but where you're mentally at. My friend came from this place and when he turned 17 he left and went into the marines in 1984. He's 57 alive and doing well today. He was smart enough to know that he needed to get the heck out of there. I thank God he did because I would've never met him. And he's a beautiful man.

[@kevinfalk8454]

Love to hear it.

[@justmyopinion9883]

@4:30 when that little boy said "I run" to the question of hearing gunfire, it broke my heart. No child should have to live that way.

[@juanblanco7594]

Ask those children which lived in Vietnam, Iraq & Afghanistan when US military gangs invaded. Plus, when US military gangs were in charge, they protected drug lords & child molesters. Today we see the crimes done in the Great American Empire name is coming home & is now on the streets, just as the 70/80's had its consequences.

[@yesno-gt6ye]

In Baltimore I stopped years ago with the duckin and running. I was asked why and I just say if you heard it and are not hit then your ok.

[@pudgecodm]

​@@yesno-gt6ye True feels like most shootings especially public ones in baltimore at least are personal beef

[@nolimitarcade2865]

The Democrats via LBJ (Johnson) are the ones that locked the black population away in those projects and the Democrats continue to keep the black population under the Democrats welfare thumb. Unfortunately it's taking forever for most of the black population to wake-up to who's doing it to them.

[@Liverpool5095]

This kids name is Johnny Shannon and he's in his 40s now. What's sad is he went on to be a cause of the violence that was ruining his childhood here in this video. He has had long stints in prison for violent crimes and only got out of prison about a year ago for his last crime. He makes posts glorifying criminals on his social media pages.

[@6120mcghee]

Living in Chicago, I was shell shocked seeing the FIREFIGHTERS getting shot at just trying to extinguish a fire

[@MoparGuy1625]

Bc hood rats don’t give a shit

[@nolimitarcade2865]

The Democrats via LBJ (Johnson) are the ones that locked the black population away in those projects and the Democrats continue to keep the black population under the Democrats welfare thumb. Unfortunately it's taking forever for most of the black population to wake-up to who's doing it to them.

[@nelsonmcatee3721]

First time I ever heard about Chicago projects it was 1971. Someone turned on a fire alarm at Altgeld Gardens. When the firemen arrived, they were caught in a crossfire from opposite buildings. All the projects in Chicago are/were super dangerous, not just CB

[@thedonofthsht76-58]

Man Chicago still hasn't changed and the government doesn't gaf. That lil boy is already traumatized. Sad to see but nothing has changed

[@nitroustommy3668]

Yeah it has. They knocked the projects down a long time ago and the area is filled with hipsters in million dollar condos today.

[@ketaminefiend4485]

It’s called assimilation

[@andreharris9363]

@@nitroustommy3668 WHERE YOU SEE THAT AT THAT SHIT IS WAY WORSE THAN EVER THAT PLACE IS A WARZONE

[@lana_6336]

@@ketaminefiend4485 gentrification

[@Jay-ci4to]

@@andreharris9363 no Cabrini green is no longer bad, except the row houses, Chicago on the other had is still bad

[@alanpowers5307]

Father Bill is amazing and still going. He is the exception to alot of these Catholics in leadership positions, and I should know because I work for the Catholic church

[@morebaileyskim]

All those poor frigging kids. Some of them were talking like they were in their sixties from the trauma they already went through in such a short time. More than most of us would see in our whole lives.

[@patrickjamesmurphy]

when i moved to chicago in 2000-2001, i lived in little italy and would go on long runs around the city. one time running through cabrini green, I heard a woman's voice yell from a window, "ooh they watchin' you!" i didn't run through cabrini again

[@zombiesRUseless6880]

They were going to kill you! They hate people that are not black. I had friends that grew up just west of cabrini. When they would ride their bikes through there, they would talk a lot of racist sh*t, and chase after them.

[@officialyae2tymez715]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ceeb107]

Smart man. That lady possibly saved your life. I’m 25 black male grew up on south side Chicago I just missed this era. I grew up in one of the worst hoods tho been shot at all that.

[@waheeddawodu9892]

🤣 Lmao.....2k/2k1 Cabrini was even better than 88-92. The would have jumped you and robbed you. Near North High Sch was a Notorious HS. The entire school was Barricaded. 1 way in, 1 way out. F 🔥 hazard....

[@trigfizzle6876]

Oh yeah, you definitely White lol. White people always get themselves in these positions and then get scared like dumba*ses lol.

[@Dirty2Clean1980]

When they tore these down the gangs just spread out more. Cabrini and the Robert Taylors where horrible.

[@zombiesRUseless6880]

All that crime was concentrated in certain areas of Chicago, then they spread these filthy creatures all over the city, and now you have it in every community

[@claypearson8380]

Facts and the city has never and will never be the same!!

[@thelonn]

Not 100% true there were gangs that spread out, but only to lower income neighborhoods unfortunately this means that they cover more area, but it’s not as violent and I gotta say it’s getting better. as someone who grew up in public housing and now lives in Garfield park I can tell you that it is a lot better, the sense of community is present and people (young people too) want change. unlike they did in the 90s. I’m assuming you also grew up in those areas and have had personal experience otherwise you really don’t have a right to say that nothing has changed

[@lastlvl]

My Dad is from Chicago, and I have a brother I haven’t seen since the 90s from there. And my girl is from Chicago but I’ve never been. I was born in LA and live here all my life but the Chi has always been interesting because of family ties. Bless all my people in Chicago 🙏🏾

[@Master_spooky]

I'm From Chicago I live around garfield park it's bad around there and I'm glad I wasn't born in LA bad neighborhoods bc I feel like LA Worse than Chicago

[@user-pm4zg2mw5b]

@@Master_spooky you would be wrong

[@lolOloveOlol21]

Wow. That is a big coincidence that your girl is from here as well as some of your family. You should visit.

[@hueso5071]

@@Master_spooky Chicago is worse than LA

[@nejmibn-cabdussalaam7524]

whats the 1st L?

[@BagOfSnacksPodcast]

lived in da greens. was born there. I have 2 dvds featuring the buildings on channel. This was good documentary

[@SaulTeebolz]

What’s the name of the dvds?

[@towannataylor1105]

Name ?

[@darianlucas6313]

I grew up on Division Cabrini greens was my backyard I cannot express enough how important change is from within I pray my ppl wake up 🙏🏽

[@mutiny_on_the_bounty]

Are you a father? Are you a father living under the same roof as the child?

[@taikoheen9164]

Same I prob know u

[@darianlucas6313]

@@mutiny_on_the_bounty yes I am I have two kids that and I'm with the mother of my kids today

[@20FreeWill]

@@darianlucas6313 🙏❤️

[@Malama_Ki]

Good luck with that….. You can’t legislate morality in a gangsta culture

[@osayybundy6157]

I once had a classmate,in Westmillbrook middle school In NC,he was from there,and boy oh boy,he was so happy to get up outta there 🤞🏽

[@AnthonyBurrough]

My heart goes out to these people who can't help what they are in.

[@mr.horrorchild4094]

They're just children really

[@AnthonyBurrough]

@@mr.horrorchild4094 indeed lol

[@kimberlysimmonswilliams1104]

I stayed there when I was young I was so scared for my life I had a gun when I was eight yrs old I got out and got educated but I will never forget where I come from it made me stronger in life

[@Quityappin]

12:32 u can see the suffering in the lil mans eyes when he asked him if he would like to live somewhere else and he said Beverly Hills cuz there no violence I hope he grew up and moved out of the south side of Chicago and became successful 🙏🏼

[@myyoutube129]

Me too, when I think Beverly Hills I think movie stars, massive wealth, beautiful homes, but he just thinks safety. That’s all he wanted was a safe place to live 😞

[@KischteBier]

@@myyoutube129 when I think Beverly Hills I think jews, who destroyed black and white communities. Look up „blockbusting“.

[@patricklandor47]

Good times anytime you need it baby!! Good times anytime you need a friend. Not getting hassled. Not getting hustled. Y’all know the rest

[@mustafahajj]

Facts. Good times was Mos Def Cabrini although actually filmed in LA.

[@danholm4952]

I remember in like 1979 I was 18 and went to a concert in Chicago and we got lost on the way home in CG. All we heard were rocks and sticks hitting the car, this was like midnight... I said 'turn around and hit anyone in the way'!

[@richierichnumber1]

Amen to the men and women who made the transition to the new homes hope and pray all is still working out for you and your loved ones.

[@anthunnad5570]

Lil Johnny breaks my heart. That lil Boy has a strong spirit. I really pray his life has turned out well

[@user-rw2pu7fv3i]

I did this mentorship Big Brother kind of thing at Cabrini Green way back. The boy I worked with was a little kid called Donte…forgot his last name. Anyways I One day I was dropping him off and and he invited me up to his families apartment. Omg, first of all the hallways and elevators were something I can’t begin to describe how awful they were. Graffiti covered the walls like wall paper! and the elevator ride…I couldn’t imagine having to do this everyday as a resident. When I went inside Donte’s families apartment I was in shock! His mother, grandmother and 5 kids all lived in this one bedroom apartment that felt like a large jail cell. Mattresses on the floor, the stove things were all lit and burning to heat the room and the broken windows…I can still see those broken windows. Then it time to go and I had to go down 5 floors out to my car alone…I took the stairs! Anyways I always wonder how/what Donte is doing now some 28 years later. He’s got to be around 40 years old. Hope he’s well

[@michaeltrujillo5068]

Young man, whoever you are, there's planes, trains, buses, and automobiles leaving your city every single day. Hop on one and don't look back. Better days are ahead.

[@Harlowerayne]

That's what I've done once I've turned 18 years of age. I left Philadelphia and NEVER looked back! I now live in a great city in a pro-gun state. Thugs are cowards they FEAR an armed community. We don't have a gang problem here. Because out here they would catch a bullet! Also the black population here is less than 6% which plays a role in us having no gang crime.

[@oluhamilton2121]

Damn.....a little kid like Johnny shouldn't have that kind of knowledge. Amazing.

[@descolabandz8855]

you somewhat forced to grow up fast in the project's!!!

[@rodknockz494]

In that environment you gotta be sharp and ya head gotta be on swivel the whole time

[@RRDB92]

well that's what happens when you live in places like Cabrini green. you need to SURVIVE.

[@Liverpool5095]

This kids name is Johnny Shannon and he's in his 40s now. What's sad is he went on to be a cause of the violence that was ruining his childhood here in this video. He has had long stints in prison for violent crimes and only got out of prison about a year ago for his last crime. He makes posts glorifying criminals on his social media pages.

[@veniljackson47]

This was crazy having dead homies at 7 years old that kid is like 8 years old and knew already 4 kids his age killed

[@ggv4541]

Is chiraq

[@Bonny228]

I wonder is the lil boy still alive today

[@sabrinabalu8045]

He is. From what I read, unfortunately he did end up joining a gang and is currently in prison.

[@JLoC.2479]

This hurts more everytime I watch it and I still watch ,

[@boribonez9874]

That kids eyes makes me wanna cry when the interviewer ask how often are shootings and he says “too often” 😔

[@newcreature6171]

Them kids were precious as they could be... I'd like to hear what happened to those kids.

[@Nzbdjcnx]

I was thinking the same-thing. Just little dudes trying to navigate a situation that would turn anyone’s heart cold. Little angels.

[@SuperKim2981]

That 7 year old that was killed by a sniper, that wasn't a stray bullet that was done on purpose. How low and evil do you have to be to kill a child. That was done because he knew NOTHING would be done about it.

[@vg4life]

It was an accident. Shooter got 100 years

[@Sidewinder528]

Damn.....I didn't even think of it like that. I know how Reckless they are with their indiscriminate way of Shooting.....But it's hard for me to believe a Baby would be just a Target of opportunity. That's not something I thought Blk ppl did. But I'm believing it

[@wolfpackwarriors]

@@Sidewinder528 “black people” no I’d say “evil people”y’all gotta stop looking in tv and saying all blacks are like this.

[@cybelisk1526]

They tore down Cabrini and the cancer just jumped on the nearest highway and set up shop in the burbs…

[@rjmoney9]

Really good compilation, thanks for making this.

[@heavymetalredneck7973]

12:30 That sweet little boy never had a chance 😔 hopefully he got away and found safety and happiness in his life instead of getting pulled into the gang trap, i grew up in the City but moved to a rural area when i was 18 and never looked back. Most of my friends who stayed in the city are dead or in prison, people born in bad neighborhoods are stuck in a trap and most of them will never be able to afford to escape those neighborhoods, i wish them luck 🤞

[@Truth-Teller57]

That was a big mistake tearing down Cabrini Green High Projects because now the gangs has spread into the joining neighborhoods that's happening now in 2022 .

[@JavierMartinez-lj9xv]

Wow, thank you for uploading!

[@NORCAL609]

Would be interesting to have a follow up on some of the residents featured on here

[@pollypissypants9872]

I hope Jonny Shannon is still alive and happy all these years later. Poor baby.

[@michelley398]

He’s on Facebook

[@julianf147]

That part where the son died in the elevator…………SHIT!!😳

[@mrgeno4682]

It was already bad in 71, I was there @ 14 years old. We had to walk spread out like they did in the war.

[@BlvdMac]

You a beast for these footages 💯💪🏼

[@mariaellis2882]

And after all these years, things have only gotten worse.

[@hotrodG2]

debatable, though I don't disagree it certainly seems that way...

[@omariorou1339]

No lol the 70s and 80s had more murders statistically

[@oronasundial]

It's bad but no where near as bad as it was. Caprini green looked like a Damm prison back than.

[@mariaellis2882]

@@oronasundial That 1970s comedy show “Good Times” was suppose to take place in Caprini Green.

[@JoeMama-tl4tr]

Really hope the little boy at 1:16 was able to make it out and have a better life. No kid deserves this life

[@chynnadoll3277]

I know. Such a cutie pie. I hope he grew up to beat the odds, poor sweet baby😢.

[@gnem6245]

I hate to say I think he died or was jailed. I can’t recall him or kid at 24:11

[@rubenalvarez6475]

Apparently he was arrested in 2006. Vincent lane turned out to be a criminal also

[@TS-1267]

30:00 This Lady's Spectacle Ware Is Splendiferous Indeed MMmmmmmm MMmmm... Brilliant Video Too... 🖖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

[@salutations5749]

Id be interested in seeing a follow up with Larry and Sherri, and the couple that Purchased.

[@youmang]

Why would someone shoot at a child walking with his mother? Whoever shot at him was behind a scope and targeting them....makes no sense. Self hate

[@coolcat5798]

Pure evil 2 do that

[@incomematters9936]

I'm just amazed how beautiful black women looked back in the early '80s. They were natural and wellspoken. Even the lady who was yelling my baby had a sense of beauty to her.

[@ms042364]

It’s the natural beauty that’s now covered with silly, overly extravagant wigs, lashes and body enhancements to mimic the video vixen standard of beauty. 😢

[@selamhazel4708]

You’re so focused on looks you’re neglecting how these women did nothing but continue the cycle and didn’t even try to want better for their kids by getting out of these neighborhoods.

[@incomematters9936]

@@selamhazel4708if this was aimed at me, I don't know who comment you were reading. I address several things not just beauty. That's obvious there condition and the mindstat. what I was highlighting is that, even in their conditions. They have maintained a level of beauty, are well mannered and wellspoken ,which you don't see nowadays in women that's in that condition. With me sweetheart you have to see abstract. And let's just say I was just speaking on their beauty. Is it a crime to love how the women in my race look in any condition there in?

[@OldSchool82]

That lady was drunk. son just got stabbed and she started acting for the camera

[@cuetlaxochitl]

Before the whole gangster rap agenda, films with all the extras, women were naturally done. Now it’s gotten out of hand for nearly all ladies.

[@H4TTOR1_H4NZO]

Those look like wine coolers on the housing authority table lol.

[@mattlawrence1932]

*The 90's Windy City Anthem* 🎵This is the land of broken hearts & shattered homes ..🎵 🎵babies that splatter domes..🎵 🎵loners that scatter bones & hide corpses in catacombs..🎵 🎵BDs & Foe's.. VLs , GDs & Stones..🎵 🎵LKs , 13's & Unknowns.. some kids & some grown..🎵 🎵highrises & viaducts... Police don't try enough..🎵 🎵dead cops get bag pipers..🎵 🎵 rooftops... we got snipers..🎵 🎵red dots..rivals get laid down...🎵 🎵headshots right on the playground🎵 🎵got kids so terrified🎵 🎵that their too scared to run &hide🎵 🎵Welcome to "The City"🎵 🎵the home of Frank Nitty🎵 🎵where gangster's show no pity🎵 🎵 ain't a damn thing pretty!!!!!🎵

[@brians7901]

These kids grow up fast

[@ADR199E]

Have too and unfortunately fast usually doesn't mean the proper way... their just thought too greet hostility into their life early on which is no way to teach a child about life...

[@ht2007]

8:57 "who controls this place," cop says the cops run the place and other guy says "the gangs run the place," in Chicago the police are the gangs...they are one in the same.

[@ketaminefiend4485]

Boo hoo keep voting blue and blaming whitey bro

[@reggied6254]

Exactly

[@reggied6254]

Biggest gang in the world COPS

[@napalmsf]

🤣 hot take

[@kappglohard348]

@@ketaminefiend4485 what stfu u have any idea how u sound. I’m not voting blue but I damn sure not voting red if u r doesn’t even matter tbh y’all always mad about things y’all do stop being so obnoxiously, annoyingly uppity

[@YouAreTroll]

And here we are today and Chicago still Remains the Same

[@whowannaentanglement3681]

It’s not like that no more

[@YouAreTroll]

@@whowannaentanglement3681 holy hell you are really stupid and uneducated. Don't talk about a city you know nothing about that you don't even live in I'm from Chicago nothing has changed. Murder rates in Chicago are double that of New York and La combined stop spreading your crap lies and false knowledge

[@teetot5276]

@@whowannaentanglement3681 Yeah it is…it’s still bad. The truth shall set u free.

[@ewaldradavich7307]

I worked @ cabrini green. It was a war zone. 2 police officers were killed walking across the property. No matter how many police and security it didn't matter. They said it changed when other for the worse when single parents were allowed to in charge apartments

[@Harlowerayne]

Yes, when black women WILLFULLY decided to bring illegitimate monsters into the world, without the benefit of a HUSBAND, begun the FALL of the black "communities" throughout the country! Screw the libtard aclu and other such bleeding heart idiots. The police can not do anything until they clean out and jail the corrupt city government starting with that idiot "mayor."

[@siriusjones956]

? What does your last sentence mean. I m happy that just getting metal detectors made a change. And getting those men out. If that continued they safety would remain.

[@ewaldradavich7307]

@@siriusjones956. It was safe when two parents lived with their children lived in Cabrini. It changed when single mothers were the sole parent

[@roaringlion1977]

Probably because single mothers have a harder time raising their children!

[@IAMBENNYBLANCO.]

Cabrini Green has been demolished .....and that area has been revitalized and that area looks amazing since it's part of downtown.

[@terryrollins1973]

The first time i saw Cabrini i was 15 years old from a rural town in Indiana, it looked like 21 Jump Street in real life. Can't imagine it now

[@midwestjes3567]

Really hoped some of the youth in this video were able to have a positive outcome.

[@couleuredgirl6314]

@@rucianapollard7098 I know some who are pretty successful. Areas like this started providing some great college programs to the kids. He has a PhD.

[@TheLedonne3]

Sequin Selvy made it out. Google him

[@Tortman18]

The church that I was a part of during my childhood did frequent weekend outreach trips to areas surrounding CG. I kid you not, we normally had a local pastor and a gang member or street wise person with us to keep us out of the troubled areas. They were very kind to people coming to the neighborhoods bringing help and support. We were never exposed to anything more than a 12 year old boy who was stabbed the night before walking home. But still, just the presence of the towers was menacing and always telling of what was really happening.

[@bigtime3196]

Thank you MOBFAX 😉🎇

[@coneyoster1275]

I left Chicago after some trouble in 1996 moved to Waukegan then from there to Kenosha, Wisconsin for a job.Moced to NC a few years later for a job and after a brief stop in Chgo. After NC Somehow ended up back in Wisconsin. Have to say Yes to the right change when it comes your way. God somehow got my entire family out of Chicago. Not just immediate family but cousins, aunt's , uncle's 100s of people little by little..Not as close a family as we once were but we're alive and able to see each other. I have lost a few family but overall God has blessed us.

[@nejmibn-cabdussalaam7524]

Been all over that...Minneapolis is it, come on over

[@cocksure8430]

I'm from West Philadelphia, born and raised there. Didn't do too well at school, spent most of my days in the playground. My mother was worried about the violence, I only really got in one little fight, but I was lucky enough to have family (Mothers side) in a nice area. When she said to me "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in bel air" I didn't want to go at first. But when I arrived I caught a cab to this huge house, my mother's sister had married a judge!! They were rich, and to be honest, I felt like a prince compared to where I came from!! So yeah, I was lucky and got another chance....until I married this Baldy head bi*ch who basically ruined everything, had some kids with her....my son turned out a freak, and I ended losing my job because of a very public fight over that woman. You can take the woman out of the hood, but you can't take the hood nigg*s out of the woman!!

[@scalesdriver1978]

It's a damn shame babies have to see violent crime at a early age it literally breaks my heart😢

[@orondedavis]

900 N. Laramie. ( 1973). It was Hell, but it was home. CVLN⭐️💪🏾

[@ericthered1140]

Dam you still bangin???

[@fearmepleasez9103]

Nigga u look like u pushing 60 and u still reppin sets 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@robsmith9093]

@@ericthered1140 An old idiot smh

[@zopound7688]

@@ericthered1140 he’s unfortunately another degenerate smh

[@MauriceRivers415]

The story of Cabrini-Green, is the story of public housing all over the USA. When you put an overwhelming percentage of poor/low-income people in public housing (especially underserved communities of Black, Latino, AAPI and Native American residents), don't do any regular maintenance/upgrades, and allow the properties to fall into squalor and disrepair, you create an environment that breeds anarchy, lawlessness, illegal activities and entrenched poverty. Mix that with the cocaine/crack epidemic of the 80's and 90's, and you have a stewing crock-pot of residents doing whatever they can to survive. Public housing authorities all across the USA are almost always embroiled in scandals like this, because there's no profit in it: they have no incentive to give the most vulnerable citizens a decent a safe place to call home, because their mindset is that a tenant receiving government assistance/Section-8 vouchers, will not appreciate nice things the way a market-rate tenant will (often true, sadly). The fact that people are still being allowed to live in these surviving row houses, crumbling and rotting as they are, is a testament to this.

[@yungfresh2defe]

Word this is everywhere but they make it super elevated when the cameras come out.. They know what they're doing that's why it's called a project.. if u starve anything breathing it's Gon feed off its own for survival

[@Agtsmirnoff]

It’s what happens when people get stuff for free, they have no pride in it and no incentive to maintain it

[@MauriceRivers415]

@@Agtsmirnoff That plays a part, too. That's why a lot of people don't rent to Section-8 tenants: too many of them come with this "I don't care" mindset and trash the place, which only hurts the model tenants that truly appreciate what they have.

[@Agtsmirnoff]

@@MauriceRivers415 Fair enough!

[@UptownAlleyFashion]

You think there’s a peak in crime because of the facilities itself?? Lmao the condition of the homes are destroyed mostly by the people of the community. It would cost even more for upkeep in these places than the average home.. except the residents aren’t going to contribute to it and they are the ones destroying it.

[@joseochoa3487]

That boy is more wise than a lot of people I know I wonder what happened to him

[@Jay-ci4to]

He joined the Mickey cobras and did time in the feds

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Very insightful, Great video 👍👍

[@KingBaldEagle1984_Prosperity]

Those people who where living in that Area was living hell on earth . No child deserves to live in those treacherous conditions.

[@johnnym4400]

It's crazy to say it but these young 10 and 11 year olds that were interviewed in this program show a lot more intelligence than these social media rappers and gang members today. These idiots today on social media rapping about killing each other make themselves look so ignorant, showing you how ignorant they really are. And these young boys that are getting interviewed on this program are highly intelligent, I was actually astonished how these young boys articulated their words, and how intelligent they spoke. I really hope they went on to become someone like a doctor or a lawyer, and went to college and have a great career instead of these punks today that want to call themselves rappers flashing big stacks of cash, that they piss through on over priced garbage jewelry that looses more than half it's value the minute they put it on and walk out of the store, making the jewlers rich, while they're making complete fools of themselves while they're all high on lean, perc 30's Fentanyl, Xanax etc.. And lastly you can actually understand these boys, they're not mumbling like they do today and showing their true colors of how stupid and ignorant they really are. I really pray to God that these kids in this video went on to become something, anything but the proverbial NBA player, or rapper.

[@thejohn6614]

Those young kids ended up banging. The main one just got out of prison but looks to still be banging.

[@davide.b8027]

Your message went from a positive message about the young fella to a rant about rappers and how they act.

[@20FreeWill]

@@davide.b8027 I was with him up until NBA

[@davide.b8027]

@@20FreeWill lol had to cut him short, huh

[@merkcityboy834]

Your right then these bloggers glorify them on here acting like their journalists but all they do is steal media footage from archives an out their own spin on it..

[@tambarean8924]

I don't see any "GOOD TIMES", what a name for a show depicting this building 😔

[@ThatsRickyyTann]

My cousins that stayed in these projects left and came to Dayton,OH to stay with us for a little after they tore them down back in like 2003-2004

[@5kehhn]

Be nice to see this country get its act together.

[@AlmightyRecoveredAddict187]

the elected lizards first

[@MrKool2000]

@@AlmightyRecoveredAddict187nobody is “elected. They’re all puppets

[@lionlocVanDwellington]

From many we are one. Stay blessed ❤️

[@MADOUT_VPS]

That would require Closed borders Prisons filled Death or penalty for murder and gangs involved in murder Lots of blacks permanently locked up Sounds harsh but the gangs are more harsh

[@t700e]

@@MADOUT_VPS There are many other individuals who commit crime who aren’t black.

[@bigdaddypiggy]

Damn! He said “Fighting over the rubble” 😞that’s exactly what it was too,I was born in DC in 1971 & grew up in the DMV without much $ & I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like in Cabrini in the 80’s at the height of the crack era …..cats think Compton was bad ( & rightfully so ) Cabrini was worse,much worse from what I’ve seen

[@johnbenning8770]

The ghetto was created don't ever forget that. This was by design.

[@357-swagnumultramagax9]

Yea but no one made you smoke crack homie

[@adhdeity]

Best comment😭💯

[@hdrjunkie]

Sad but true…

[@blackberry9013]

💯

[@veeb346]

that’s decades old info. the community knows the ghetto was designed. and yet STILL, many ppl of our community CHOOSE to assist with this designed self destruction we've had decades to redesign our own collective destiny, but we all know many of us CHOOSE to not help.

[@Beencouraged777]

I was growing up in the projects in St. Louis Missouri in the 60s. Mother got us out of there when I turned five. She moved us to the beautiful state of Washington and I’m still here. I love Washington, it is so beautiful. I’m so thankful, my mother relocated us; nevertheless, I still remember the poverty of the projects and I’m almost 58 years old.

[@kyreedavistownes4210]

(2023 Review) Ive been watching multiple these news stories from 70's 80's and 90's across the country about 'gangs' 'urban warfare' 'inner-city' crime (Chicago,LA, NO, NY, Philly, etc) its all the same. A bright spot in each is the (often times overlooked) are people in these communities keeping hope alive through action. Questions rarely asked or answered in news stories like this: who profits from these situations? From guns, drugs, low income housing regressing, children being tried as adults, poverty and wage gaps deepening, communities being labeled and related to 'warzones', etc? It seems like the 80s was really a war against the black youth. Every system and institution there to help them failed or turned on them; cops, schools, housing, job market, justice system, news and media. It's 2023 and the nation is still at 'war'. Maybe the systems never failed or broke. Maybe this is how it's supposed to be? time is revealing the truth.

[@playinwithUFOz]

Them kids were more grown than most men.

[@ifgwelf]

Yeah that kid at 14:00

[@jeremylesso857]

I feel for the kids

[@tenbroeck1958]

That 10 year-old little boy breaks my heart. I hope he grew up and has a great life.

[@acebandagedaclown4215]

Im goochie. I got my ged and started hustling hard. I make enough.

[@CrookedRosePOD]

Then mayor Daley knocked the buildings down sent them to the burbs and then the burbs declined

[@swannoir7949]

He should've just re-built them elsewhere as planned

[@mustafahajj]

Wasn't that some s.... no disrespect to anyone. But you can't send ppl to the burbs with nothing. It takes money to live in the burbs. Example there are hundreds of dollars in fees to enroll your child in PUBLIC school in the suburbs. But Daley didn't think about any of that. Bulldozed their home and sent them to Maywood, Hillside, Evanston, Elgin and other areas.

[@swannoir7949]

@@mustafahajj not just that. He underestimated gang culture, and didn't count the cost. He should've stuck with the original plan -- re-locate and re-build. This is only adding to more racial animosity and resentment from white people who are seeing their neighborhoods turn to shit. It's a shame. Daley wanted Chicago to be like New York, and he got it -- in the worse way.

[@lenaely6146]

Okay ✔️😒🕵🏾‍♀️🏌🏻🏌🏻🏌🏻

[@mustafahajj]

@@swannoir7949 Most definitely!

[@bombassawyer8093]

Never get on the elevators..

[@robertbright2057]

That screening process should be IMPLEMENTED WITHIN NYCHA HOUSING SYSTEM but UNFORTUNATELY there are those within the Black community that still have to be removed before any progress is achieved.

[@andrewfedele5850]

40,000 Cabrini Green residents displaced by the demolition…79 families moving into North Town Village…what happened to the other 39,000 people?….great journalism

[@devaughnholt3284]

They didn't qualify they was too degenerate and they were part of the problem at Cabrini-Green and that lady counselor said she wasn't having that CB shit at Northtown Village

[@brandoncook8975]

"like a bad neighborhood" whew that opening sequence is incredible. the old world was so scary.