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More recently, the Madonna has been seen in the U.S. Devotees by the thousands have been flocking to the Mother Cabrini shrine near Denver, where Theresa Lopez, 30, says the Virgin has appeared to her four times in the past seven weeks. Marian apparitions were reported by parish coordinator Ed Molloy at St. Dominic's Church in Colfax, Calif., for 13 weeks in a row last year, and there was a surprise reappearance six weeks ago. In Our Lady of the Pillar Church of Santa Ana, Calif., Mary's image has been seen by Mexican immigrant Irma Villegas...
...Some of them stared directly into the blazing light. They hoped to see the Virgin Mary there. A local housewife named Theresa Lopez had had visions of Mary and promised an apparition. Six thousand of the hopeful stared up at heaven near Lookout Mountain. T shirts (MOTHER CABRINI SHRINE and FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION) sold for $20 each. The bottles of HOLY WATER, MEANS OF SPIRITUAL HEALTH were free...
...infamous gang zone is the huge Cabrini-Green public housing project, a cluster of decaying high-rises on the near west side. Says an elderly woman who lives at the project: "They've all got guns or knives, and they act like they own the place." Not far away, at Crane High School, a large majority of the boys are said to be gang members or affiliates. "I'm scared all the time," says one girl, a junior at Crane. "Last year a boy standing right next to me in the hall was shot by another...
Late last month Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne was boasting that on the first anniversary of her ballyhooed three-week stay in the crime-ridden Cabrini-Green public housing project, "it has been turned around. It's not perfect, but it's better." But Her Honor's moment of glory was clouded. Since January she and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development had been feuding over a HUD audit suggesting that the Chicago Housing Authority, the nation's second largest, with 142,000 tenants in 46,000 units, was among the worst managed...
...sampling last December, just 3% of residents rated the quarrelsome mayor "excellent" and 46% rated her "poor." But she dramatically recovered her standing in April through a public relations gesture that was also a sign of sensitivity and compassion. She and her husband, former Reporter Jay McMullen, moved into Cabrini-Green, a predominantly black, decaying and crime-ridden housing project. Police began patrolling more. Playgrounds were installed and a summer recreation program promised. When her building's incinerator chute was too stuffed to open, Byrne called housing authorities and got prompt relief. Even though her stay at the project...