I was raised in 514 apt 501. We were there when grass was a rich green, flowers was planted each year, the play ground equipment all worked, the buildings were kept clean, elevators were kept working and incinerators were always in good condition. Neighbors had rent parties for each other, no family went hungry without receiving help from other neighbors. After a while we moved to the Ida B Wells row houses on 37th St. This is the Ida B Wells I remember.
My grandma used to live here for many years on 37th and King Drive. Although it wasn’t crime free, it was a really nice place to live. Once she was displaced, her quality of living was never the same. This is sad on many levels.
I remember Ida B. Wells. I remember when I used to go visit my aunt in Lake Meadows, who is also a former resident of Lowles Gardens, right by Ida B. Wells. Everytime you looked out the window, you saw nothing but projects and people started moving out of Lake Meadows cause of all the break ins, and I remember the incident where somebody got robbed on the elevator at Lake Meadows.
I grew up there. We cannot continue to blame others for the demise of what quite a few of us called home. It was once so beautiful and the residents were an integral part of the upkeep. However, drugs came into the area and it went down from there. Mothers stop being mothers and Fathers stop being fathers because they became addicts who no longer brought their children up with morals and principles. The in turn grew up to not value anything...not even human life. Can't blame anyone but us.
just wanted to let u know I was born and raised there, the taller buildings to the left are the lawless garden apts, lake meadows apt were north of Ida B near Jewels. I know that you all weren't raised there :) But thats ok!!
This work you are doing of documenting changes is very important. To understand the future we have to understand the past. The projects were created to confine the poor. Now they are being evicted. The housing program was not successful in helping people to improve their situation in life. But I salute you for creating something that shows the history of the city and its neighborhoods. In about 10 years, Ida B. Wells will just be old folks tale.
0:54-0:58 I literally just had a flashback and seen me and my cousins playing by the tree because that was my aunties old apartment ... Regardless of the activities from gangs and even the police the Wells was still awesome af
mrwoods123 i think you are believing the wrong myths about the jects no one lives rent free the rent is 30% of your gross montly income So if your check B4 taxes was 1200 your rent was $360.00 if not more depending on the extra people on your lease. Its crazy cuz the more money you made the more your rent went up. So how can you save when the rent is constantly going up with every promotion you get. meanwhile your next door neighboor might not have a good job so they're rent is cheaper
I went to Holy Angels School on Oakwood Boulevard, and most of my classmates lived in Ida B. Wells. It wasn't always bad. Many of my former classmates have good and bad memories of living there. In the 50's and 60's there were many good social aspects about the place. Things change and people move on.
This is why I don't rep things like blocks or cities. Im from california and we as a people face the same problems no matter what city you go to that require us to unite and come up with practical solutions.
thats messed up how they move the black people out and bring in the middle class. in new orleans, they just build new town homes over the project and we move back in in a year. they say mix middle class, but i didnt see one yet till dis day
I know just what you are talking about.The same thing is occuring in Detroit,Michigan the city where i'm from.They got rid of the Jeffries Projects right across from the new "Motor City Casino",they tore down Herman Gardens from the Cody High school area 12 years ago and promised to rebuild them but never did,check out the vast vacant land at Southfield and Joy Road!Check out the Buffalo Projects on Mound Road at Charles street,they only left a couple of row houses standing out of 50.
It is unfortunate that some people chose to wait to the last minute to relocate but CHA gave ample notice for this process. You do have to recognize that for everyone one productive citizen living there three more are selling drugs, robbing, and killing people! The change is long over due and definitely needed and for the hard working and honest residents of CHA the opportunity to return after the revitalization is stil there.
To Northern, all black people from the projects are not lazy, shiftless, drug dealing, gangbangers. You honestly have some very good people who grew up there, so please do not stereotype. If you all stop running and try to help with a solution to the problem, maybe we won't have another "there goes the neighborhood." Get to know them and talk to them and maybe you will see that their not what you automatically assume.
hello i am spain .Sabrias me says which is the song that sounds in the movie the ghetto (our america) initially(originally) when the car happens(passes)? .la movie is of this neighborhood thanks
Hate this shit i'm from chicago the low end and the wells just like other pjs r gone they all gone . the wells dead the only thing cracking is the extentions but other then that the whole low dead to me. R.I.P. robert taylors, stateway, wells, pc's, and the rest of the low end. Its Low End or No End Bitch. B.N.C.
I am confused about this video, whats the point..whose ran these projects down...? I was born and raised in Rockwell and I managed to change. I agree with MurphyLee83, change starts within. Obama taking office shows us that...when will people with project mentalities realize this? Granted the projects were flawed from inception, but what would have been the alternative? Why did we let and continue to let this define us? Come on black people stand up...we have the power to change this...!
they also feel stupid because they knew that they tore down the projects because of high crime and open drug trade markets but all that came back to the city in more areas since they tore down the jets. so they waste bout $1 bill doing that, talking bout they worrying bout the welfare of the people.
Sorry. I just don't believe that anyone would be paying $1200 per month to live in the projects. If she really didn't wanna leave, she could have purchased a house right across the street on King Drive. They also have small mansions on that street.
Ok go to school and learn in school dont gang bang. find a minimun wage job. save a little money. move the fuck out. continue education. get a better job etc. If you want hand outs, this is how you live. I went from home to living in a 300,000 dollar house in about 20 year. you have to work for it. yes, i am black and grew up in cabrini green
like I said its easy for you to comment on such a thing when you are looking in from the outside you don't know what its like to live in the projects and by the way a disability is not the only reason why someone could stay down there for 17 years the system itself was designed for the black population too fail, how could a person save when everytime the get a raise on their job their rent increases as well huh??? there is no getting out unless its illegal or dishonestly point blank
I hear you sister, I had friends and family that lived in the Wells and Robert Taylors. But there is always a way! Our people first need to stop sinning turn to YAH and change our mindset! I grew up in the hood, for about ten years my mom lived in the projects on 63rd Cottage, she eventually bought a house. Many people from the projects moved out and did better and many stayed and continued in the same poor mindset! Poor mindset is not about money! Dawson Tech was right down the street from the wells, but how many people in the later generations took advantage of learning new skills and furthering education for higher income? Not many because most of my teenage friends were from the Wells.
just like mzplieworld32 said your rent is $25 if you don't work. It really doesn't get any lower than that cuz they cut out the free rent thing a long time ago cuz people were taking advantage of it and they wasn't trying to find jobs cause they wanted their rent to stay zero i kno right its said but they were doing it. thats why they changed it to everybody must paid at least 25 bucks whether you are employed or jobless
Lol that was her neighborhood, so they named it after her. I lived in the Ida B. Wells projects on 37th and King Drive and the home that Ida B Wells lived in when she was alive was on 36th and King Drive (not apart of the projects though). I’m think it’s still there actually because if I’m not mistaken, it’s a landmark.
"Dawg" You brought it on yourselves. The projects were built to help people get back on there feet. Funny how the Italians, German, and Irish were able to do that! Yet your "People" have had families there for generations.
Fuck what all yall talkin about, I LIVED THEIR FOR 17 YEARS THIS IS REALLY THE ONLY REAL THING I CAN ACTUALLY REMEBER IT BY. I live in the new buildings that they build in this spot and ill tell you that the malterial of these buildins r very shitty! the quality of the wells buildings were 10 times better. we've been livin here 5 years and people have already fell through their stairs!
You know a good program to try!!!!!! Get Jobs! Keep Your Legs Closed Until Marriage! Talk Things Out Instead Of Shootin Or Stabbin! And Get Over Being, "Poor Poor Us".! Move Forward! Embrace Change! Work Hard! We Have a Black President. The Race Card Has Gone Out The Window!
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I was raised in 514 apt 501. We were there when grass was a rich green, flowers was planted each year, the play ground equipment all worked, the buildings were kept clean, elevators were kept working and incinerators were always in good condition. Neighbors had rent parties for each other, no family went hungry without receiving help from other neighbors. After a while we moved to the Ida B Wells row houses on 37th St. This is the Ida B Wells I remember.
I really do miss the Ida B. Wells, I grew up there, and survived, good, and the bad, I wouldn't change or ever forget where I'm from💪❣️❣️
My grandma used to live here for many years on 37th and King Drive. Although it wasn’t crime free, it was a really nice place to live. Once she was displaced, her quality of living was never the same. This is sad on many levels.
I remember Ida B. Wells. I remember when I used to go visit my aunt in Lake Meadows, who is also a former resident of Lowles Gardens, right by Ida B. Wells. Everytime you looked out the window, you saw nothing but projects and people started moving out of Lake Meadows cause of all the break ins, and I remember the incident where somebody got robbed on the elevator at Lake Meadows.
I grew up there. We cannot continue to blame others for the demise of what quite a few of us called home. It was once so beautiful and the residents were an integral part of the upkeep. However, drugs came into the area and it went down from there. Mothers stop being mothers and Fathers stop being fathers because they became addicts who no longer brought their children up with morals and principles. The in turn grew up to not value anything...not even human life. Can't blame anyone but us.
If you lived there you went to Dolittle elementary or middle school
just wanted to let u know I was born and raised there, the taller buildings to the left are the lawless garden apts, lake meadows apt were north of Ida B near Jewels. I know that you all weren't raised there :) But thats ok!!
ty for pointing out the displacement going on. we need a housing and poverty agenda in the US
This work you are doing of documenting changes is very important. To understand the future we have to understand the past. The projects were created to confine the poor. Now they are being evicted. The housing program was not successful in helping people to improve their situation in life. But I salute you for creating something that shows the history of the city and its neighborhoods. In about 10 years, Ida B. Wells will just be old folks tale.
I was raised in the ida b wells. It use to be a beautiful place
I used to come up for the summer to visit my grandma. She lived on 37th. It was real nice in the 60s and early 70s.
Wow i wasnt born until 90
Thise buildings in the video are not Lake Meadows or Prarie Shores.
Those are Lawless Gardens
0:54-0:58 I literally just had a flashback and seen me and my cousins playing by the tree because that was my aunties old apartment ... Regardless of the activities from gangs and even the police the Wells was still awesome af
mrwoods123 i think you are believing the wrong myths about the jects no one lives rent free the rent is 30% of your gross montly income So if your check B4 taxes was 1200 your rent was $360.00 if not more depending on the extra people on your lease. Its crazy cuz the more money you made the more your rent went up. So how can you save when the rent is constantly going up with every promotion you get. meanwhile your next door neighboor might not have a good job so they're rent is cheaper
The wells were big. I used to live on 35th king dr.
cianamja i heard a lil boy got thrown out of a window in 94
I went to Holy Angels School on Oakwood Boulevard, and most of my classmates lived in Ida B. Wells. It wasn't always bad. Many of my former classmates have good and bad memories of living there. In the 50's and 60's there were many good social aspects about the place. Things change and people move on.
they drove pass my old crib... i miss the wells
!From 37th To 39th (King Drive To Cottage Grove). #LowEnd 💯💯💯
This is where I grew up at damn
There are still a few extension buildings that are still up and occupied atleast 4 or 5 to my knowledge, the last time I rolled through there.
This is why I don't rep things like blocks or cities. Im from california and we as a people face the same problems no matter what city you go to that require us to unite and come up with practical solutions.
thats messed up how they move the black people out and bring in the middle class. in new orleans, they just build new town homes over the project and we move back in in a year. they say mix middle class, but i didnt see one yet till dis day
I know just what you are talking about.The same thing is occuring in Detroit,Michigan the city where i'm from.They got rid of the Jeffries Projects right across from the new "Motor City Casino",they tore down Herman Gardens from the Cody High school area 12 years ago and promised to rebuild them but never did,check out the vast vacant land at Southfield and Joy Road!Check out the Buffalo Projects on Mound Road at Charles street,they only left a couple of row houses standing out of 50.
Where did you stay at? I stayed in the extenstions 534.
It is unfortunate that some people chose to wait to the last minute to relocate but CHA gave ample notice for this process. You do have to recognize that for everyone one productive citizen living there three more are selling drugs, robbing, and killing people! The change is long over due and definitely needed and for the hard working and honest residents of CHA the opportunity to return after the revitalization is stil there.
To Northern, all black people from the projects are not lazy, shiftless, drug dealing, gangbangers. You honestly have some very good people who grew up there, so please do not stereotype. If you all stop running and try to help with a solution to the problem, maybe we won't have another "there goes the neighborhood." Get to know them and talk to them and maybe you will see that their not what you automatically assume.
Madden park?
real talk! I'm born and raised in chicago..........,
hello i am spain .Sabrias me says which is the song that sounds in the movie the ghetto (our america) initially(originally) when the car happens(passes)? .la movie is of this neighborhood thanks
My old projects 😪
I wish we had housing projects around here, seems like a nice way to grow up. Community is stronger.
Damn I miss the land 511 apt 502
And what if you don't work? Then what is the rent? Subsidised housing for an apartment and living in the projects are 2 totally different things.
Hate this shit i'm from chicago the low end and the wells just like other pjs r gone they all gone . the wells dead the only thing cracking is the extentions but other then that the whole low dead to me. R.I.P. robert taylors, stateway, wells, pc's, and the rest of the low end. Its Low End or No End Bitch. B.N.C.
I am confused about this video, whats the point..whose ran these projects down...?
I was born and raised in Rockwell and I managed to change. I agree with MurphyLee83, change starts within. Obama taking office shows us that...when will people with project mentalities realize this? Granted the projects were flawed from inception, but what would have been the alternative? Why did we let and continue to let this define us?
Come on black people stand up...we have the power to change this...!
they also feel stupid because they knew that they tore down the projects because of high crime and open drug trade markets but all that came back to the city in more areas since they tore down the jets. so they waste bout $1 bill doing that, talking bout they worrying bout the welfare of the people.
Where did all the people who lived there go?
monkeipeg to poorer neighborhoods or homeless
Yes, sadly, my grandma lived there. Her next few moves were to more poverty-stricken areas. It never got better.
At 1:29, they pass a car that has a parking ticket on the driver's side window.
Sorry. I just don't believe that anyone would be paying $1200 per month to live in the projects. If she really didn't wanna leave, she could have purchased a house right across the street on King Drive. They also have small mansions on that street.
Ok go to school and learn in school dont gang bang. find a minimun wage job. save a little money. move the fuck out. continue education. get a better job etc. If you want hand outs, this is how you live. I went from home to living in a 300,000 dollar house in about 20 year. you have to work for it. yes, i am black and grew up in cabrini green
Black where?
Wow. 2006
Nobody paid $1200 to live there.
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I miss the hood C Note City
RIP Ida B Wells Darrow homes and Madden park homes
like I said its easy for you to comment on such a thing when you are looking in from the outside you don't know what its like to live in the projects and by the way a disability is not the only reason why someone could stay down there for 17 years the system itself was designed for the black population too fail, how could a person save when everytime the get a raise on their job their rent increases as well huh??? there is no getting out unless its illegal or dishonestly
point blank
I hear you sister, I had friends and family that lived in the Wells and Robert Taylors. But there is always a way! Our people first need to stop sinning turn to YAH and change our mindset! I grew up in the hood, for about ten years my mom lived in the projects on 63rd Cottage, she eventually bought a house. Many people from the projects moved out and did better and many stayed and continued in the same poor mindset! Poor mindset is not about money! Dawson Tech was right down the street from the wells, but how many people in the later generations took advantage of learning new skills and furthering education for higher
income? Not many because most of my teenage friends were from the Wells.
GOOD- Stop The Killing--Im Born Here..
just like mzplieworld32 said your rent is $25 if you don't work. It really doesn't get any lower than that cuz they cut out the free rent thing a long time ago cuz people were taking advantage of it and they wasn't trying to find jobs cause they wanted their rent to stay zero i kno right its said but they were doing it. thats why they changed it to everybody must paid at least 25 bucks whether you are employed or jobless
Classism ethnic cleansing
"ZONE CRAZY" 3727 BEAM TEAM WHAT IT IS !
I can't believe they named a housing project community after Ida B. Wells. WTF?
Lol that was her neighborhood, so they named it after her. I lived in the Ida B. Wells projects on 37th and King Drive and the home that Ida B Wells lived in when she was alive was on 36th and King Drive (not apart of the projects though). I’m think it’s still there actually because if I’m not mistaken, it’s a landmark.
!Mostly, All Projects Was Named After Somebody... Just Like "Robert Taylor Homes" 💯😂🤷🏾
"Dawg" You brought it on yourselves. The projects were built to help people get back on there feet. Funny how the Italians, German, and Irish were able to do that! Yet your "People" have had families there for generations.
Fuck what all yall talkin about, I LIVED THEIR FOR 17 YEARS THIS IS REALLY THE ONLY REAL THING I CAN ACTUALLY REMEBER IT BY. I live in the new buildings that they build in this spot and ill tell you that the malterial of these buildins r very shitty! the quality of the wells buildings were 10 times better. we've been livin here 5 years and people have already fell through their stairs!
LYING ASS!!!
551
U gotta displace bums
Well doing this stop gangs and innocent people dying
Easy cccc cccc cccc declare CCC with dance Lil Wayne City Science Hill doors to the Winstead away with it done
You know a good program to try!!!!!!
Get Jobs!
Keep Your Legs Closed Until Marriage!
Talk Things Out Instead Of Shootin Or Stabbin!
And Get Over Being, "Poor Poor Us".!
Move Forward!
Embrace Change!
Work Hard!
We Have a Black President. The Race Card Has Gone Out The Window!
Hey I used to live in 534 E. 37th st #607! Who are you????? I'm Lisa.
574 apt 610 & 551 apt 209❤