Jemin Na’s Reviews > High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing > Status Update

"A few years after being ousted from the [CHA], [Vince Lane] was convicted for making false statement on a loan application tied to the development of a South Side shopping center. For the violation, Lane's lawyers said he deserved at most probation, since no one suffered a financial loss, but Lane received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence. For many, the punishment seemed excessive."

US congressman Christopher Shays visits Cabrini-Green unannounced and stays the night at K-So's place. When Shays asked K-So how they managed the heat, "the question seemed like a bit of life imitating the art of "Good Times".

Good Times | The Evans' Unexpected Visitor | The Norman Lear Effect
https://youtu.be/Q5sLk5oTEwc?si=A7XT2...

Dantrell Davis Way. "a stretch of Cleveland Avenue outside Jenner school, just feet from the shooting"

Page 179 - 183
Candyman (1992)
After Hours (1985): "tapped into a phobia held by this new Yuppie class-a white office worker finds himself marooned in a yet-to-be-gentrified section of downtown Manhattan. "NONE OF IS SAFE," one of the endless tabloid headlines blared during the hysteria around the Central Park Jogger case."

"It was the spring of 1991, and people in Chicago were fiending as well for Michael Jordan and the Bulls...The basketball movie "Heaven Is a Playground", filmed on location at Cabrini-Green, was about to hit theaters,"

Violent crimes the mid 80s- the start of the 90s.
"...the hysteria had cemented into policy. Nearly every state had passed harsher sentencing laws for juvenile offenders; children were being tried as adults and receiving mandatory minimum sentences, including life terms. Pregnant cocaine users were charged with child abuse and even manslaughter."

When They See Us (2019) took place within this sentiment.

"Chicago 21"
Marion Stamps
Harold Washington
"Vrdolyak 29"
William Julius Wilson, "The Truly Disadvantaged"

"For the cop, Ricks was the embodiment of the Cabrini-Green image, Danitra Vance's character in the flesh. For Ricks, the threat seemed almost comical. "I don't care what you call on me," she said. "I tried to get my children to DCFS. They wouldn't take them. These kids are well-dressed and taken care of." She snickered."

Sugar Ray Dinke - Cabrini Green Rap
https://youtu.be/B0qeHzoGra4?si=lmdm9...

The Free Street Theatre's musical "Project!"
https://freestreet.org/timeline/free-...

"Since Cabrini-Green and other beleaguered public housing developments in Chicago had vacancies, that's where large numbers of ex-offenders were went. These were people who needed shelter and a fresh start, but also required extensive guidance and counseling; parolees were supposed to be monitored and mentored."