The first high-rise to be demolished in the Cabrini-Green public housing development came down over two decades ago, the last in 2011. The plan to replace the development was viewed as quite radical ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Once a troubled corner of Chicago, the area that was once home to the Cabrini Green housing project has changed drastically over the years. As the Chicago Housing Authority prepares to ...

1981: At 8:30 p.m., a limousine carrying Mayor Jane Byrne from a $150-a-plate dinner in the Conrad Hilton hotel pulled up to ...

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The feast day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), or Mother Cabrini, is Nov. 13. Maria Francesca Cabrini was born in war-torn and politically turbulent northern Italy, the youngest of 13 ...

Chicago's Circle Interchange highway loop was renamed after Jane Byrne this week, the city's first and only female mayor. Scott Simon talks with Kathy Byrne about her mother's legacy. Yesterday, the ...

The last tenant moved out of the last high-rise at the Cabrini-Green public housing development on Thursday, marking the end of a long and sad era in which the poor were stacked on top of one another ...