Cabrini Green, a former home, I called it Hell

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Cabrini Green, a former home, I called it Hell

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Sarah L Member Registered: May 2008 Location: Montclare VA Posts: 376 users gallery	Once one of the most dangerous places to live in the nation.
	· Date: October, 9, 2008 · Views: 1266 · Filesize: 107.0kb · Dimensions: 500 x 333 ·
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sweeper2
(AKA) Nakamura

Registered: November 2003
Posts: 5,525

October, 10, 2008 11:32am

Rating: 10

wow... picture looks fake... lol... why is it so dangerous...

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engracio
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Registered: October 2001
Location: Illinois
Posts: 2,017

October, 10, 2008 9:20pm

sweeper2

You have to live there to know it. If you don't know, then you never will. I grew up 1mile west of her neighborhood separated by a railroad track and a river. Half a mile east of Cabrini Green is the beautiful Lake Michigan beaches and a completely different world.

Cooley High was a couple blocks away before it was torn down.

vass0922
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Registered: October 2001
Posts: 20,432

October, 11, 2008 5:45pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini-Green

not a happy place

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Cabrini-Green was so feared by the Chicago Police during the 1990s that many refused to enter the complex for fear of their lives. Several officers reported that once inside the complex they had been verbally abused and spit at, and had rocks smashed through their patrol car windows. Many others had been shot.[9][10]

An unanticipated result of the steel fencing installed to secure the previously open gangways was that it became difficult for police to see through the steel mesh from outside; in 1970, two policemen were killed by snipers.