Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Circle Campus. Closer inspection reveals a streetscape of despair: low, glum buildings, boarded-up store fronts, infrequent parks, broken curbs. True to cliché, the district's neighborhoods are walled off from one another by three separate lines of railroad tracks, the eight-lane Dan Ryan Expressway and a barge canal. Looming above all are the three 15-story apartment buildings that make up the Brooks Extension public housing project...
...black schools so that each contains half the usual grades and also half the enrollment of both of the previous schools?provided pairing does not force whites to flee the area. New York City envisioned a "linear" school concept, in which schools would be strung out over a new expressway and the highway would provide rapid transportation between mixed neighborhoods. The idea was abandoned when expressway plans fell through...