Word: swankest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...