Sojourner Truth Elementary School, 227
South Africa, 318–19
South Central (movie), 191
South Deering, 38
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 78
Spanish Cobras, 156
Spiegel, 47
SSI (supplemental security income), 194
Stamps, Marion
alderman campaigns, 132–33, 241
background of, 104–5
death of, 241
tenant activism of, 65–66, 104–6, 131–35, 157, 210–13, 215, 240–41
gang truce, 210–215, 241
Stamps, Tara, 336
Stanton, Edwin, 87
Stanton Park, 87, 187
Stasch, Julia, 255–56, 257, 259
Stateville Prison, 93, 130, 158, 204
Stateway Gardens, 46, 207
Steele, Carol, 301, 312, 333
Mayor Emanuel and, 322
tenant activism of, 250, 257–58, 262–63, 270–71, 286
tenant council presidency, 267–68, 274–76, 288
street gangs, 68–77, 84–90, 106, 128–30, 195–96, 212–17, 307. See also specific gangs and members
Dolores Wilson and, 69–71, 158–59
gang truce, 214–217, 226
killing of Severin and Rizzato, 74–77, 78, 80
murder of Dantrell Davis, 196–205
Rodnell Dennis shooting, 162–65, 166
Sugar Ray Dinke (Demetrius Cantrell), 99, 126–27, 235–36
Sullivan, Thomas, 265–66
Summers, Larry, 319
superblocks, 22, 40, 81
“superpredators,” 152–53
Swap-O-Rama, 245–46
Swedish immigrants, 13
Swibel, Charles, 58–60, 107–8, 344
Take Our Daughters to Work Club, 188–89
Target, 299–300, 331, 336
Taylor, Elax, 65, 104
Taylor, Robert, 30, 33, 39, 46
Teen Town, 72
Temple Mount (Jerusalem), 214
There Are No Children Here (Kotlowitz), 185–86
There Are No Children Here (movie), 226
Theus, Reggie, 106
“This Is CHAnge,” 269
“This Is CHAos,” 269–70
Thomas, Eddie, 33–34
Thompson, Henrietta, 227
Thompson, James, 97–98, 213
Tichy, Jan, 297–98, 300
Till, Emmett, 197
Tomes, William “Brother Bill,” 183–87, 189–91, 244, 261, 333, 343
towers-in-the-park design, 22, 24–25, 208, 304–5
Tranquility-Marksman, 104–5, 211, 212, 214–15
Traveling Souls Spiritualist Church, 28
Trotter, Charlie, 200
Truman, Harry, 35–36, 119
Trumbull Homes, 38
Trump, Donald, 152, 345–46
Trump Tower, 343
Truth, Sojourner, 105
Tubman, Harriet, 213
Turner, Thomas, 327, 328–29
Turtle Wax, 27
12 Million Black Voices (Wright), 7
21 Jump Street (TV show), 165–66
Union Stockyards, 43
United Center, 242–44
United Nations
affordable housing, 317–18
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 270–71
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 334
United States Housing Authority, 17
University of Chicago, 137, 209, 277, 318
University of Houston, 166
University of Illinois, 119, 308
University of North Carolina Tar Heels, 166
Untouchables, The (movie), 202–3
UPS, 174, 176
urban planning, 22, 81
urban renewal, 36, 46, 60, 181–82, 254. See also Plan for Transformation
vacancies, 6, 68, 80–81, 97–98, 200, 202, 222, 233, 258
Vance, Danitra, 122
Vassar College, 4, 214
Veal, Johnny, 75, 130
Venezuela, 271
Veterans Affairs, U.S., 47
Vice Lords, 69, 155, 156, 163–64, 166, 195–96
Vietnam War, 86, 144, 174, 187
violence, 54–55, 68–71, 98–100, 152–53, 178–79, 183, 187–88, 249, 250. See also Crime; Homicides; Street gangs
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 216
Voices of Cabrini (newspaper), 226–29
vouchers. See Section 8
Vrdolyak, Ed, 132–33, 135, 148
Waiting to Exhale (movie), 246–47
Walgreen’s, 303
Walker, Jimmie, 125
Walker, William, 330–31
Waller High School, 54–55, 62–63, 65, 84, 136
Wall Street Journal, 295
Ward, Ethelrene, 157–58
War on Drugs, 202
War on Poverty, 56, 66, 96, 161
Warriors, The (movie), 88
Washburne Trade School, 29, 33–34, 55
Washington, George, 77
Washington, Harold, 131–35, 145, 148
Washington, Sylvester “Two-Gun Pete,” 19
Washington Park, 11
Watson, Anthony, 126
Wayman AME Church, 53
Welfare, 28, 57, 65, 76, 105, 137–39, 242–43
Wells High School, 156
Wells Street, 52, 62
Annie Ricks relocation to, 294–95, 300–304, 310–13, 336–39
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, 318–19
Western Electric, 72
West Madison Street, 59
When Public Housing Was Paradise (Fuerst), 26, 31
White, Jesse, 63–67, 88–89, 136, 240, 341–42
white flight, 37, 57, 135
“Whites,” 33, 47, 85, 95, 106, 166, 245
“wilding,” 152
William Green Homes, 46–47, 50, 57, 65, 299. See also Cabrini-Green Homes
William Morris Endeavor, 321
Williams, Jimmy, 98–99, 228
Williams, Ronnie, 98–99
Willis, Benjamin C., 54
“Willis Wagons,” 54
Wilmette, 320–21
Wilson, Cheryl, 20, 54, 158, 197, 233, 268, 286, 287, 305–6
Wilson, Debbie, 20, 92, 158, 286
Wilson, Dolores, 8–13
apartment hunting, 9–10, 13, 21, 286–87
background of, 10–11, 12
at Cabrini-Green, 21, 23, 56–57, 58, 76, 95, 108–11, 284–87
move into, 24–28
renovations, 224–26
resident management, 162, 168–72, 224, 234–35
children and family life, 19–20, 40, 69–70, 91–92
civic activism of, 40–42, 47–48, 122, 132
courtship of Hubert, 10–13
death of Hubert, 110–11
gun of, 8–9, 70–71
Jamaica vacations, 94–95, 287
King riots of 1968, 61–62, 68
murder of son Michael, 235–37
nightlife outings, 48–49
Prairie Avenue apartment, 8–9, 10, 12, 21, 323–24
prison reform work, 92–94, 97–98, 306
prospect of home ownership, 20
public housing options, 20–21
relocation to Dearborn Homes, 304–6
tenant activism of, 136, 157–62, 229, 268–69, 306–7
work and jobs, 47–48, 91–92, 108–9, 110–11, 160
water management job, 47–48, 91–92, 110, 160, 234–35
Wilson, Hubert, 8–13, 287
arrest of, 18–19
background of, 11–12
at Cabrini-Green, 25, 27–28, 56–57, 108–11, 131
children and family life, 19–20, 48, 92
Corsairs, 48, 66, 69, 99, 227, 287
courtship of Dolores, 10–13
death of, 110–11
J
amaica vacations, 94–95, 287
nightlife outings, 48–49
prospect of home ownership, 20
work and jobs, 27–28, 47, 95, 109–10
Wilson, Hubert, Jr. “Che Che,” 19–20, 21, 61–62, 69–70, 109–10, 305
Wilson, Kenny, 20, 61, 92, 236, 286
Wilson, Michael, 20, 69–70, 108, 109, 235–36
Wilson, William Julius, 137–39, 142, 242
Winfrey, Oprah, 122, 126, 200, 226
Winnetka, 227
Wisconsin Dells, 157
Wonder, Stevie, 132
Wood, Elizabeth, 4–5, 17, 30, 31, 33, 38–39, 43, 148
Woodlawn Organization, 71, 73, 148
Woodrow Wilson Junior College, 12
World Urban Forum, 271
World War I, 6
World War II, 18
Wright, Richard, 7
Wrigley Building, 343
Yotaghan, Wardell, 250
Young Democrats of Cook County, 240, 241
Yuppies, 135–36, 182
Yusef, Ramzi, 217
Zorbaugh, Harvey, 15, 335
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