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Period: 1 BCE to
The Robert Taylor Homes Public Housing Development
-The Housing buildings were completed in 1962 and were named after Robert Taylor, to adopt the name The Robert Taylor Homes Public Housing Development. -It was composed of 28 high-rise buildings with 16 stories each, and a total of 4,415 units -It was planned for 11,000 inhabitants, but at peak it housed 27,000 people. Nearly triple the intended purpose! -The buildings were linked with chain linked fences -
Period: to
Displacement of the African-American Communities (Chicago's Ghetto)
-Robert Taylor Homes.
-This Displacement is mainly due to the Gentrification of the inner city areas.
-Gentrification caused high concentration of African-American communities in the west and south sides of the city.
-The Gentrification concentration relates closely to the pattern of homicide that started of Homicide that began to develop in the 1990's.