CHICAGO (CBS) – The Julia C. Lathrop Homes along the Chicago River used to be a public housing complex. The beautiful North Side location is filled with some ugly buildings. They're vacant eyesores ...

Residents will return to the former Julia C. Lathrop Homes complex in September, just 11 months after developers and the Chicago Housing Authority held a groundbreaking ceremony signaling the public ...

On June 16, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Congress passed legislation creating the Public Works Administration, a key component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The PWA’s ...

Related Midwest and Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation’s plans for one of Chicago’s earliest public housing developments are moving forward decades after its redevelopment began. The Lathrop Homes ...

CHICAGO — Pastors and parishioners from a pair of Northwest side churches gathered Saturday to protest what they said was the Chicago Housing Authority’s lack of development in the Lathrop ...

Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. For decades, the city of Chicago sought to redevelop the Julia C. Lathrop Homes, a 1938 Public Works Administration housing development ...

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