Chicago's Cabrini-Green Projects To Come Down

"Housing officials want to relocate Franklin and about 1,400 residents who remain at Cabrini-Green, one of the nation's most notorious public housing projects. For the last five years, the Chicago Housing Authority has been gradually emptying Cabrini-Green as part of a 10-year, $1.6-billion plan to level public housing projects. Similar efforts are underway across the country.

...Cabrini-Green was neither the most crime-ridden of Chicago's housing projects nor its largest, but it became its most notorious, largely because of the viciousness of the crimes that took place there."