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Robert Taylor Homes

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Growing Up in the Robert Taylor Housing Projects

by Jacqueline Serrato February 25, 2022March 7, 2022

or four decades, a row of towers on the South Side competed with Chicago’s famous skyline. The Robert Taylor Homes, encompassing twenty-eight structures, each sixteen stories high, stretched for two miles along South State Street. It was the largest housing project in the city and, at one point, in the country. By 2005, all the […]

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