Originally Posted by
Bham1982
I don't think it's true that Cabrini Green was built in an "affluent area".
That area, way back, was a super-poor Irish neighborhood [[at least I'm pretty sure this is true), and the complex [[which came in two phases) replaced this slum.
The affluent North Side neighborhoods were [[and are) concentrated in a narrow corridor along the lake. Back then, the corridor was much thinner, and areas like Old Town were crap. That whole Carl Sandburg complex was 1960's slum removal.
Even today, everything west of the Brown Line [[hell, everything west of State Street) is a lot less desirable than everything east of Brown [[or State). There's a lot of parking lots, subsidized housing, and rather low-end uses [[gas stations, strip malls, etc.).