The Chicago Housing Authority began expanding the city's public housing developments with the construction of high-rises. These buildings were intended to provide government assisted housing for a large number of people without taking up much space. As a sign of the racial segregation of the city politics at the time, these buildings were built in predominantly poor, African-American neighborhoods.
Snipers in Cabrini-Green kill two Chicago police officers with high powered rifles.
Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne briefly moved into a Cabrini-Green apartment to draw attention to the development's poor living conditions and gang violence. While many criticize the move as a political stunt, her presence helped bring media attention to the problems associated with Chicago's public housing high-rises.
Snipers in a vacant 10th floor Cabrini apartment shoot and kill 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he walks to school with his mother.
The federal government awarded a $50 million HOPE VI Grant to facilitate redevelopment of the Cabrini Extension North site.
A 9-year-old girl that would become known to America as "Girl X" was found beaten, raped, poisoned and left for dead in a seventh-floor Cabrini-Green stairwell.
The Plan for Transformation began in 2000 under the leadership of Mayor Richard M. Daley. It is the largest, most ambitious redevelopment effort of public housing in the United States, with the goal of rehabilitating or redeveloping Chicago's public housing units. The overall project will cost the city more than an estimated $1.4 billion.
Cabrini-Green residents' Local Advisory Board sues CHA over relocation plans for displaced residents of Cabrini–Green under the city's Plan for Transformation. CHA's demolition program had outpaced its reconstruction program, thus leaving families with few options beyond equally dangerous and segregated areas elsewhere in the city, or simply becoming homeless.
The final tenant, Anne Ricks, moved out of Cabrini-Green's last high-rise.
1230 N. Burling St., Cabrini's last high-rise building was demolished. Hundreds of residents gathered to watch their former home crumble.
CHA reveals its plan to incorporate community development into it's housing redevelopment through their "plan forward" which incorporates the creation of better community and job resources with the construction of retail space and new housing for a wholistic approach to redevelopment.
Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council (LAC) filed a federal lawsuit against the Chicago Housing Authority in an effort to compel CHA to honor its promise to maintain the Francis Cabrini Rowhouses, a 586-unit low-rise development on Chicago’s North Side, as 100% public housing. “The CHA’s plan violates the most basic sense of fairness on every level, and it is also illegal,” said Elizabeth Rosenthal of LAF, attorney for the LAC. “CHA has a well-established statutory duty to affirmatively further fair housing, but its new plan only perpetuates segregation.”
The Chicago Housing Authority held an open-house for developers and residents to showcase their plans for construction of new housing and retail. The open-house is a part of the agency's attempt to include residents in the redevelopment planning phases.
CHA construction of 25,000 replacement public housing units is set to be completed in Spring 2014.
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