Stateway Gardens
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Stateway Gardens is the name of a housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago, alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway, adjacent to the former Robert Taylor Homes.
[edit] History
1955: Construction at Stateway Gardens begins, with 1,644 units planned in eight high-rise buildings. Total cost: $22 million.
1958: Stateway Gardens opens. About 3,000 people move in.
1978: Stateway Gardens, Robert Taylor Homes and most of the ABLA Homes on the West Side are rehabilitated under a $106.2 million CHA plan.
1982: Amid rising crime in CHA developments, the Chicago Police Department launches a Public Housing Crime Unit to replace private security guards at those sites.
1984: Stateway Gardens is within the sixth poorest U.S. census tracts, according to a Roosevelt University study. Cabrini-Green on the North Side ranks seventh.
1988: The South Side's Wentworth Police District, which includes Stateway Gardens and the Robert Taylor Homes, has 67 homicides, the highest of any district in the city.
1993: The federal government creates Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere, known as HOPE VI, as a way to provide funds for cities to demolish dilapidated public-housing units and replace them with mixed-income communities.
1995: Federal officials seize control of all Chicago Housing Authority holdings and property amid allegations of corruption and graft. The CHA leaves federal receivership in 1999.
1996: Demolition of Cabrini-Green begins, marking the start of what will eventually come to be known as the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation.
1997: Demolition begins at the Robert Taylor Homes.
2000: The CHA formally approves the 10-year Plan for Transformation to remake public housing. Demolition begins at Stateway Gardens.
October 2006: Stateway families are scheduled to leave the final remaining building (3651-53 S. Federal St.), and the building is expected to be demolished by September.
