“How could I put Cabrini on a bigger map?” Jane Byrne wrote in her 1992 book. “Suddenly I knew – I could move in there.” More on her controversial move to Cabrini-Green: ChicagoStoriesWTTW
Image: ST-17500795, Chicago Sun-Times collection, Chicago History MuseumOn March 31, 1981, Mayor Jane Byrne and her husband, Jay McMullen, moved from their Gold Coast, high-rise apartment into the Cabrini-Green Homes, a housing project on Chicago’s Near North Side. Some called it “brave,” while others condemned it as a publicity stunt.
When Byrne visited another time, she encountered a police scene in which a young girl had been gang raped. “How could I put Cabrini on a bigger map? Suddenly I knew – I could move in there,” she writes. “I thought it was a daring and really smart decision. Not everybody agreed,” Carol Marin, who covered Byrne as a reporter at the time, told“Give her credit for bringing attention to a place that most people would rather look away from, not drive by, don’t go in that neighborhood. And so I thought what she did, while it may not have had a long-lasting effect, I think what she did was bold.”
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