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Word: cabrini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour of Cabrini-Green, a violence-torn public housing project on Chicago's Near North Side, Mayor Jane Byrne noticed a 16-year-old girl sitting in a police cruiser. The mayor asked what the youngster was doing there. She had just been raped, was the answer. The mayor returned home and a few hours later announced that she and her husband Jay McMullen would move into a two-bedroom apartment at Cabrini-Green. Said Byrne: "I asked myself what the difference was between this and other neighborhoods. In most, they get the troublemakers out. That is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago's Cabrini-Green: 2 Brs, Inexp, W Vu of Roaches | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...announcement drew some jeers from skeptical opponents, especially when it was later disclosed that Byrne and her husband would not give up their apartment on the 43rd floor of a Gold Coast highrise and would spend only an occasional night at their Cabrini-Green digs. Yet the move also won wide praise. "This takes a lot of guts," said Chicago Housing Authority Board Member Renault Robinson, who is black. "If this works, the mayor's political stock in the black community will rise 100%." Claims Byrne: "I'm not doing this for votes. Whoever says that should take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago's Cabrini-Green: 2 Brs, Inexp, W Vu of Roaches | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Cabrini-Green consists of 23 high-rise buildings and 55 row houses, all packed onto a 70-acre wedge of Chicago just south of the trendy Old Town neighborhood. Even when the project opened 39 years ago, the neighborhood was a high-crime pocket. Today the median income is $4,575 a year, and almost eight out of ten famines are headed by one parent. The TV comedy Good Times-about a loving, industrious black mother and children-is centered on a family at Cabrini-Green, but the project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago's Cabrini-Green: 2 Brs, Inexp, W Vu of Roaches | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...three saints: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, Mother Elizabeth Seton and Bishop John Neumann, who was canonized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Long Road to Sainthood | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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