Robert Taylor Homes is a public housing project in Bronzeville on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, bordering along State Street between Pershing Road (39th Street) and 54th Street next to Dan Ryan Expressway. The project is named for Robert Rochon Taylor, an African-American activist and chairman of the first Chicago Chicago Authority (CHA). This is part of the State Street Corridor which includes other CHA housing projects: Stateway Gardens, Harold Ickes House, Dearborn House and Hillard House.
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History
Robert Taylor Homes was completed in 1962 and named Robert Rochon Taylor (1899-1957), an African American activist and member of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) council who in 1950 resigned when the city council refused to support the location potential buildings throughout Chicago that will encourage racially integrated housing. At one time, it was the largest public housing construction in the country, and it was meant to offer affordable decent housing. It consists of 28 tall buildings with 16 floors each, with a total of 4,415 units, mostly arranged in a U-shaped group of three, stretching for two miles (three kilometers).
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Problem
Robert Taylor Homes faces many of the same problems that befall other high-end housing projects in Chicago such as Cabrini-Green. These problems include narcotics, violence, and poverty eradication. Planned for 11,000 residents, Robert Taylor House is housed at a peak of 27,000 people. Six of the poorest US census regions with populations above 2,500 are found there. Including unemployed children, at one point 95 percent of the 27,000 inhabitants of unemployed housing develop and recorded public assistance as their sole source of income, and 40 percent of households were single parents, female.headed households earning less than $ 5,000 per year. About 96 percent are African-American. Dykes, high-reinforced concrete, blackened with burn marks, sitting in a narrow slum. The neglect of the city is evident in the streets littered, poor building codes, and few commercial or civilian facilities. Apart from ignoring and ignoring crime, police officers also feel unsafe in the dark alleys and are often shot from high-rise buildings. At Robert Taylor's House, a survey was conducted and showed that the majority of the population has family members in prison or expecting someone to return from prison within two years. This causes problems when people try to move; many of these returning prisoners have spouses, children, and/or mental illness that prevents them from moving to another residence.
Violence and gang drug
Gang Mickey Cobras (MC) and Gangster Disciples (GD's) dominate the housing project. Police intelligence sources say that the growing number of killings is the result of "gang wars", when gang members and drug dealers clash over Chicago's environmental control. CHA estimates that $ 45,000 in drug deals happens on a daily basis. Former residents of Robert Taylor's House say that drug dealers are struggling to take control of buildings. Within one weekend, more than 300 separate shooting incidents were reported around Robert Taylor's House. Twenty-eight people were killed over the same weekend, with 26 of the 28 incidents believed to be linked to the gang.
Crime
Many crimes occurred at Robert Taylor's House, peaking all the time in the mid-1970s. Most of the crimes committed in housing projects are drugs and street gang violence associated. In October 1976, 22-year-old Denise Dozier was thrown from the window of the 15th floor apartment on the project; He survived the incident. A six-year-old girl, Towanda Brown, was left alone with her siblings while her mother was out partying and gambling; he jumps out of the 9th floor window trying to avoid a fire from a fire ignited by a radiator-style steam heater. Ms. Brown was initially accused but public sympathy prevented her from prosecution. On June 25, 1983, a baby, Vinyette Teague, was kidnapped from the project after her grandmother left her alone in the hallway for a few minutes to answer a phone call. An estimated 50 people were in the hallway at the time of the kidnapping, but the police were unable to collect enough evidence to make the arrest. He has not been seen or heard since then. On August 15, 1991, shortly before midnight, CHA police officer Jimmie Haynes was badly wounded by a sniper fire from a high-powered rifle on the project. He died two days later at the Mercy Hospital and Medical Center. Three suspects are accused of murder. A maintenance worker on the project was beaten to death by gang members after he allowed police officers to access a building where the gang meeting took place in February 1993.
Redevelopment
In 1993, it was decided to replace all Robert Taylor Homes with a mixed income community in low-rise buildings as part of a federal block grant received for the purpose of the HOPE VI federal program. In 1996, HOPE VI federal funds were granted exclusively for substitute Taylor's offsite housing. The Chicago Housing Authority moved all residents by the end of 2005. On March 8, 2007, the rest of the last building was destroyed. In 2007, a total of 2,300 low-rise residential homes and apartments, seven new and renovated community facilities, and a number of retail and commercial spaces will be built on the site of the old tall buildings. The estimated total development cost is estimated at $ 583 million. Part of the rebuild is the renaming of the area for "Legends South".
Famous citizen
Robert Taylor's home was also home at a time to:
- Sir. T (Lawrence Tureaud), actor and former wrestler.
- Kirby Puckett, baseball player.
- Deval Patrick, the 71st Massachusetts Governor (2007-2015).
- Corey Holcomb, comedian and actor.
- Open Mike Eagle, a Hip-hop artist.
- Beauty Turner, writer, and community activist.
- Maurice Cheeks, basketball player.
Research
Due to the almost homogeneous housing standards and demographics, the RTH cluster is an ideal location to study the effects of urban life and the lack of "green space" on human conditions. This type of research in environmental psychology is most clearly shown by a group of studies conducted by Frances Kuo and William Sullivan of the Landscape and Human Health Laboratory (formerly the Human-Environmental Research Laboratory) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The history and economy of this housing development is studied by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh in his book American Project (ISBN 0-674-00830-8). In his 2008 "Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogers Sociologist Takes the Street" (ISBN 978-1-59420-150-9), Venkatesh also profiles the area, its inhabitants and the "Black Kings", a Chicago gang. known for selling drugs. The "Black Kings" are renamed for this book to maintain anonymity, even though it is a possible reference to the Gangster Disciples. Though not about Robert Taylor's House, author Alex Kotlowitz writes about the Chicago Housing Authority, the demography and history of the Chicago Housing project in his book No Children Here (ISBN 978-0-38526 -556-0). This book discusses Henry Horner's House, but also looks at and addresses issues throughout the area. Housing construction is the subject of a PBS documentary called Crisis On Federal Street that was aired nationwide in August 1987.
References
External links
- The official Robert Taylor Homes CHA site
- "Midst the Red Glare Pistol - Chicago Robert Taylor Homes, public housing development", Summer, 1999.
- Farewell to High-rise - the last days of Robert Taylor's House in Chicago
- The Robert Taylor Homes website at Emporis
- Encyclopedia of Chicago entries about Robert Taylor Homes
- "Dislocated," a film by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University, "tells the lives of tenants in one building as they move through a six-month relocation process" according to the website description.
- The history of Robert Taylor's building name
- Robert Taylor Homes Refines the photos by ChicagoEye (Lee Bey).
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