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  2. Tenement housing in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Tenement housing in Chicago. Tenement housing in Chicago was established in the late 19th and into the early 20th centuries. [1] A majority of tenement complexes in Chicago were constructed in the interest of using land space and boosting the economy. These tenements were built quite tall, often exceeding 3 stories, to accommodate as many low ...

  3. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Black Belt of Chicago was the chain of neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago where three-quarters of the city's African-American population lived by the mid-20th century. In the early 1940s whites within residential blocks formed "restrictive covenants" that served as legal contracts restricting individual owners from renting or ...

  4. Chicago in the 1930s - Wikipedia

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    The Black Belt was an area of aging, dilapidated housing that stretched 30 blocks along State Street on the South Side. It was rarely more than seven blocks wide. Many African Americans who moved to the Black Belt area of Chicago were from the Southeastern region of the United States. Discrimination played a big role in the lives of blacks.

  5. Altgeld Gardens Homes - Wikipedia

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    Altgeld Gardens Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the border of Chicago and Riverdale, Illinois. The residents are 97% African-American according to the 2000 United States Census. [1] Built between 1944 and 1945 with 1,498 units, the development ...

  6. Robert Taylor Homes - Wikipedia

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    Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.

  7. Parkway Garden Homes - Wikipedia

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    Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, commonly known as O-Block, is a 694-unit privately owned apartment complex located in Greater Grand Crossing area and is on the border of Woodlawn and Washington Park. Chicago's Greater Grand Crossing, Woodlawn, and Washington Park community areas are located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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