2016 Fall Colloquium: Law, Technology and Society Program Film Screening 70 Acres In Chicago: Cabrini Green

Thursday, October 20, 2016
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Cullimore Lecture Hall 2

Law, Technology and Society Program Film Screening
70 Acres In Chicago: Cabrini Green

​Co-sponsored by the Albert Dorman Honors College and the Law, Technology and Society program at NJIT, this file documents the demolition of Chicago's infamous Cabrini Green public housing development.  With its prime centrla location, Cabrini was hailed as a public housing triumph and demonized as an urban disaster.  Beginning in 1995, it was demolished and then repackaged as a mixed income development, where, unsurprisingly, the former, largely black residents have been marginalized or driven away.  70 Acres documents this upheaval, from the razing of the first buildings in 1995 to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods a decade later.