Posts with tag housing projects

Chicago's Gold Coast Says Bye to Poor Neighbor

Just a few blocks from Chicago's affluent Gold Coast, the infamous Cabrini-Green Public Housing Project will soon be no more. On Thursday, the last highrise resident of what was once 15,000 people spread across 23 highrises and row houses on a 70-acre site, moved out. Annie Ricks, 54, moved into Cabrini in 1990, two years... Continue Reading »

Tracy Morgan on the "Boogie-Down"

We like Tracy Morgan so much we want to take him behind a middle school and ... well... lets just say we were pret-ty excited when his new autobiography, "I Am the New Black," came out recently. Just like his Tracy Jordan character on 30 Rock, the real-life comedian ain't afraid to be controversial. In the book Morgan... Continue Reading »

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