Word: cabrini
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...enterprise so hopeless and ridiculous that it bursts through the limits of ordinary absurdity and emerges, grinning like a fool, on the other side. A bunch of white yuppies, as Coyle tells it, decide to help out with a Little League that's getting started in darkest Cabrini-Green. Cabrini is a 70-acre failed social experiment known, in understated terms, as the worst low-rent development in the U.S. From its high-rises rifle fire sweeps down, both random and specific, as rival gangs contest territory and drug- marketing turf. In Cabrini, as Coyle relates, "gunfire is discussed like...
THOUGH ONLY 7, DANTRELL DAVIS HAD ALREADY witnessed more fire fights than most U.S. soldiers. Since March, two of his classmates at Jenner Elementary School in Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project had been slain, and Dantrell was well experienced in running for cover at the first sound of gunfire. But he never heard the shot that killed him on Oct. 13, when a sniper opened fire from a 10th-floor window as Dantrell walked to school with his mother. The rest of Chicago did, and Dantrell's death sparked yet another agonizing debate over how to stop...
Chicago Housing Authority chairman Vincent Lane called for the National Guard to be deployed at Cabrini-Green. Mayor Richard Daley instead ordered a massive police sweep of the 70-acre, 78-building project, which houses 7,000 residents a few blocks from the city's swankest shopping district. At a press conference last Monday, Daley confirmed what most urban Americans already know, saying, "We have seen a complete breakdown of society...
Criticized for a city murder rate that has already topped 790 this year, Daley also announced other measures to beef up security at Cabrini-Green, including the use of metal detectors, IDs for residents and secured entrances. Meanwhile, suspect Anthony Garrett, 33, told police that he shot Dantrell by mistake. Garrett said he was simply trying to take out a few rival gang members when the first-grader...
Theresa Lopez said she saw the Virgin "wearing a gold gown . . . surrounded by pink, sparkling lights." Everyone else saw blue sky and stabbing sunlight. When the day was over, a woman named Kathy left the Mother Cabrini Shrine near Denver disillusioned. She had brought her two-year-old son, who is mentally and physically disabled, because she thought the Virgin would help...