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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...
...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...
...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...
...door will be a contingent of police bodyguards. The city has assigned a special 28-member police platoon to the complex, and a nearby police court will be reopened soon. Last week seven area liquor stores were ordered closed, and the first of 800 eviction notices sent out to Cabrini-Green residents designated as "troublemakers." Airport-style metal detectors, intended to stop the importation of guns, may be installed soon...
Already, say residents, some gang members have gone looking for quieter havens. But one 16-year-old at Cabrini-Green is not hopeful. Says the girl: "They're going to stop shooting until the mayor moves out. Then they're going to start shooting again...