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On March 28, artists Jan Tichy and Efrat Appel put 134 self-contained, battery-powered LED modules in each of Chicago high-rise housing project Cabrini-Green’s 134 vacated apartments. Cabrini-Green ...

On this day in 1995, crews began the demolition of a Cabrini-Green high-rise, the first in the Near North Side complex to be razed. Built over two decades starting in 1942, the story of the towers and ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...