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Dearborn was the first
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While still unfinished, it was used to receive lower-income residents displaced by redevelopment; half the buildings were also increased in height by three floors when more money became available during construction. The buildings soon fell victim to vandalism; in 1958 a
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Dearborn and wrote of "torn window screens, mutilated storm doors, yards littered with garbage, . . . walls, doors, and casings marked by knife slashes and crayon marks; holes gouged in plaster; obscenities scrawled on the stairway walls".
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gang dominated the complex during the 2000s. In 2006, following an undercover drug conspiracy bust, numerous people living at and near the housing project died of overdoses from a potent form of
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The project occupies 16 acres (6.5 ha) and consists of mid-rise, six-story, and nine-story buildings. They were designed in modernist style by
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appearance, and has installed its first resident computer center there. The number of apartments will be reduced to 660.
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Public housing development located on the
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2009 photograph of two
Dearborn Homes buildings shortly after renovation.
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and
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Blueprint for
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and metal porches—to give the original plain brick a
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when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.
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Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a
Tumultuous Age
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615:History of Dearborn Homes
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680:Neighborhoods in Chicago
380:Progressive Architecture
181:. It is located along
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119:660 units; Renovated
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43:General information
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382:52 (1981)
270:References
250:Renovation
175:South Side
91:87°37′40″W
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553:USA Today
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142:Governing
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48:Location
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