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What's going to happen to the former Cabrini Green Site/ West of the new Target?

On the corner of Division and Halsted.  Right now it's just a grassed lot, plain, with god knows what littering the ground.  Hopefully they'll make it into a park, which is sorely needed. 

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Permalink Reply by Tim S on April 25, 2013 at 1:22pm

It's some prime real estate

Permalink Reply by Dan Allison on April 25, 2013 at 3:19pm

probably another target. it seems that you can never have too many of them.

Permalink Reply by Mike Weez on April 25, 2013 at 3:48pm

that's a valid point. 

Dan Allison 14.5 mi said:

probably another target. it seems that you can never have too many of them.

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on April 25, 2013 at 4:23pm

Outdoor bowling alley.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on April 25, 2013 at 4:52pm

Drive-through L.A. Fitness.

Permalink Reply by Jason W on April 25, 2013 at 5:11pm

I thought that they had to build more public housing on any land that was former public housing high rises according to some federal rules. My guess is if they don't want to build more there, it will just sit.

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 25, 2013 at 5:14pm

They are building a Target on land that was former public housing high rises . . . . .
 
Jason said:

I thought that they had to build more public housing on any land that was former public housing high rises according to some federal rules. My guess is if they don't want to build more there, it will just sit.

Permalink Reply by Jason W on April 25, 2013 at 5:16pm

On the east end of the property, right? I thought the high rises didn't go that far. Anyway, I could be wrong, but I swear I have heard that somewhere.

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on April 25, 2013 at 5:18pm

Nope.  Smack dab in the middle about where the last building was before they tore it down.

Permalink Reply by Jason W on April 25, 2013 at 5:28pm

Well it seems HUD took over the CHA some years back, and this plan does call for replacing the housing units which were torn...

Redevelopment of Cabrini under the historic transformation plan initiated in 1999 calls for 1,200 new public housing units to replace those lost in the demolished Cabrini Extensions and Green Homes. Only 395 to date have been built.

I know, not exactly what I said, but it seems like they are still planning on making more housing there.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on April 25, 2013 at 5:29pm

How about respecting the legacy of Mother Cabrini in the new development?

 

Maybe a foreign business in honor of her work with immigrants?

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Veneration

Cabrini was beatified on November 13, 1938, by Pope Pius XI, and canonized on July 7, 1946, by Pope Pius XII. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants. Her beatification miracle involved the restoration of sight to a child who had been blinded by excess silver nitrate in the child's eyes. Her canonization miracle involved the healing of a terminally-ill member of her congregation.

The date fixed on the Universal Calendar of Saints for Mother Cabrini's feast day is November 13,[5] the day of her beatification. In the pre-1970 calendar, still used by some, the date was December 22, the day of her birth to heaven, and so the day normally chosen for a saint's feast day.

[edit]Honors

Chicago's Cabrini–Green housing project, which has since been mostly torn down,[6] was named after her, due to her work with Italian immigrants in the location. It has since become a haven for underprivileged and poor people and the Cabrini Sisters still work there.

Permalink Reply by Crazy David 84 Furlongs on April 25, 2013 at 5:47pm

At least a part of this was home to the late lamented New City YMCA.   It had the biggest and best pool among all of the City YMCA's and also had substantial athletic fields.    It was a criminal waste to close New City.   Particularly because the money that was obtained from selling New City (and another YMCA near Circle) didn't actually go to fixing some of the other YMCA's in the area that need updating.   But then, with their new 365 day a year opening policy, they are really turning into a plain old health club.   (Actually they are no longer the YMCA, they are just the Y.  They dropped Christian and are now open on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years....  stupid stupid policy.

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