Henry Horner Homes
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Henry Horner Homes
Damen and Lake
Project: Henry Horner Homes
Year Built: 1957
Year Closed: vacated by 2008, demolition completed early May 2008
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Historical Resources:
Kotlowitz, Alex. 1991.There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America.New York: Doubleday.
Popkin, Susan J.The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in Chicago.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Pages 85-137.Call No. HD 7288 .78
“Plan 6000 Unit Public Housing Program Here.”Chicago Daily Tribune, January 2, 1955. p. 33.Retrieved September 11, 2008 from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
1996 aerial view of Horner Homes by Alex S. Mclean, from the Imagebase Project at University of Illinois-Chicago.
Demolition of Henry Horner Homes. Photograph by Micah Marty from the City 2000 collection at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Digitized by CARLI.