ANACMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, ...

Good morning, Chicago. On this day in 1995, crews began the demolition of a Cabrini-Green high-rise, the first in the Near North Side complex to be razed. Built over two decades starting in 1942, the ...

While the 1992 movie features the massive public housing project, which at one time housed 15,000 people, the remake shows the aftermath of the building's demolition 10 years after the last tower was ...

It's so hard for the private market to build less-expensive housing that some local governments are experimenting with ...

1914: An explosion at the Franklin Coal and Coke Co. mine in downstate Royalton (near Carbondale) killed 52 workers. It was ...