12 buildings. 304 units. Total cost, $19.5 million. Ever wonder who made North of Howard the way it is today? I found an article from 1982 that places the blame squarely on The Standard Oil Company and the Chicago Area Renewal Effort Service Corporation.
Found in Mayor Jane Byrne's City Edition Newspaper. June 1982.
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Fellow Rogers Parkers:
My eyes are not strong enough to read the small print of this article but it looks like a large corporation was trying to help the poor and disadvantaged. Isn't this what we want instead of having the greedy corporations keep all the money to themselves?
Rogers Park became blighted in the 70s, as the disinvestment in our cities that started after WW2 and picked up steam in the 60, was completed in the 70s, with the introduction of Section 8 rent subsidies, and the failure of the big housing projects. Most of the smaller cities, like Newark, St.Louis, Memphis, and Cleveland, were totally collapsed, and NYC and Chicago severely damaged, by the multi-decade wave of disinvestment and sprawl building that ensued upon the construction of the interstate highway system and FHA's famous "red lining" of intact city neighborhoods in the50s and 60s. This is the reason I so thoroughly despise the interstate highway system, that great tax-gobbler and destroyer of cities.
That was when St. Louis' infamous Pruitt-Igoe, then the worst and most crime-plagued housing project in the country, was demolished by blowing it up. Some new high rise project were built, but the new emphasis was on "scattered site" projects and Section 8 vouchers for market-rate buildings. Landlords in nabes with a lot of large multi-family buildings eagerly jumped at the vouchers, because they enabled owners to charge "market" rents for buildings that were less marketable every day- in other words, maintain artificially high rents while providing increasingly sub-standard housing. There were always supposed to be rules and screening of tenant, but I have never seen all that enforced in any city I've lived in.
Rachael Slur
is an ok name for a sock puppet
but Slur isnt a name,
Rachel Schnur is a real name and a real person.
Ok Schlur is a real name, cant find any Rachel Schlurs though, wonder why,
Try to make the name more authentic, right now its too obvious, and its funny in like wow, too obvious a device and too obvious of a name to be really clever, just kinda lame
having the extra a in rachael is too obvious too,
ok so Rachel Schlur is better, because its a name that could exist but doesnt (again wonder why)
I had a screen name pendecitius which is what some fool thought that was how you spelled appendicitis on some hilarious fan fiction site for greys anatomy
btw i looked up pruitt-igoe
wow that was just so bad!
it was knocked down just over twenty years after completion and was never fully occupied,
its looks like something out of 1984, Whoa!
They had some crazy ideas back then!
The demolition of Pruitt Igoe by explosives was filmed, and that footage has been shown in one format or the other all over the country.
Pruitt was an absolute nightmare,the worst in the country before 1972 when it was destroyed, but no more than about a dozen other similar projects that ringed downtown. Most of them have been torn down and replaced with really beautiful low-income town houses on the same sites- let's see how long it takes the residents to trash THOSE.
Dykon Demolition did it with explosives. They cut the supporting members first to weaken the buildings, which stood at the corner of Grand & Enright in St. Louis, just a couple miles north and west of downtown. Then they set up a series of hundreds of intricately timed explosions to make the building implode on itself, rather than explode.
Hundreds of people turned out to witness the demolition and cheered when the buildings collapsed in neat heaps of rubble and dust.
Dear Miss jetto:
I don't know why you seem so angry with me. I have only posted my comments here as you have, as the "Leave you comment" section invites. I am deeply and truly sorry if I have offended you in any way.
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"Juneway Jungle" was down the tubes well before 1982. The North Point project tried to "bring it back" by improving the housing stock.
This approach was part of a philosophy going back into the early 1900s: that poverty caused crime, insanity, boozing, doping, and so on - and never acknowledging that crime, etc, might cause poverty.
(Blogger Clayton Cramer recently noted a item from the 1930s on the strong correlation between schizophrenia and living in slums - which assumed that the causative relationship ran one particular way.)
Section 8 vouchers - now there was in idea I wish they would have skipped!!! Look at the destruction it has caused in neighborhoods and the way landords became slum tenants while charging market rate.
My dear fellow Rogers Parkers:
I don't know what I would do without my section-8 housing, my linkcard, and my disability payments. I thank Jesus every day that I live in a country and city where the disadvantaged are taken care of in such a way. Thank you President Barack Obama. I have very much hope for my future. And thank you Mr. Joe Moore for the kindness you have shown us in this Chicago Ward.
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