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  • 1990 – NNDC, through NTRAC, published “North Town Community Redevelopment Plan." The Plan...
    • Envisions a safe, drug free neighborhood on the Near North Side
    • Claims areas diverse population is an asset, and the city should maintain its economic, social and racial integration
    • Housing is top priority, but the group’s 14 community goals include:
      • Building of a Town Center
      • Provision of new parks and community institutions
      • Installation of better circulation patterns around and through Cabrini Green site
  • Early 90’s - NTRAC proposal does not generate much interest or publicity = Neighborhood continues to deteriorate
  • October 13, 1992 – Dantrell Davis’s Death
    • Shot from apartment by a sniper in Cabrini Green
  • Summer 1992 – 150 residents demand that the city and CHA do something to protect the people there due to multiple apartment murders (by sniper)
  • 1993 - CHA plan calls for a 10-year, $350 Million make-over of the project (see "Renewal of Near North Side" for further details)
  • 1994 – Ground broken at Orchard Park = First government supported effort to turn Lower North into a mixed-income community
  • 1995 – Congress suspends and then later repeals the old “one for one” replacement rule:
    • This rule called for no net loss of public housing units during redevelopment
    • Without it, it became legally possible to tear down a public housing project and build in its place a community with a drastically reduced population of very low-income residents
  • June 1995 – First two demolitions underway at HOPE VI site
    • Lane ousted from his position at the CHA
    • Federal Government takes over CHA due to alleged mismanagement
  • October 1995 – CHA issues a new RFP for Cabrini Green


Rhetorical Analysis, 1990-1995:  In these 5 years the building and many of its rhetorical aspects seemed to bring about a new change. A 10 year $53 million dollar deal was in place to create a new space, North Town Village which would mix the working class and the lower income families.  The goal of the beautification of the new space was to appeal to the “working” class to bring about change.  It is obvious when looking at the idea partiality and what the words really meant.  When the planners wrote this proposition, the working class meant the middle class white population who would attract more business to a very valuable piece of land.  The exterior of the building would need to be remodeled in order to attract those potential homeowners who were middle class.  There is a development in the rhetoric during this time period.  The propositions and proposals all now took into account the possibility of making a profit of this land.  


 

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