Destruction of Cabrini-Green Made Development of Bally's Casino Possible

Last week, City Council approved the plans for a Bally’s Casino at the old Tribune publishing site in River West. The location at Chicago and Halsted is a couple blocks away from Cabrini-Green, a public housing development where thousands of residents were displaced beginning in the late 1990s. Promises were made that Black residents would be able to return with access to new homes, jobs, and opportunities. Most of those promises were broken. Host Jacoby Cochran looks back on the history of Cabrini-Green public housing with reporter Natalie Moore and talks to former resident J.R. Fleming.

This episode was originally published on Jan. 27, 2022. 

Read the Better Government Associations series, "Cabrini-Green, A History of Broken Promises."

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