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USA TODAY: "Public housing failed msierably in Chicago. Why is the city now opening a housing museum?"

  • Writer: Team Acacia
    Team Acacia
  • May 30
  • 1 min read

May 30, 2025

By Michael Loria



Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum opened in April in the last remaining building of a public housing complex, located some two miles from the city’s iconic downtown.


The opening comes decades after former residents called for a museum in response to the city destroying much of Chicago’s public housing in the early 2000s. America had soured on public housing then and was on a nationwide demolition derby, blowing up decrepit high rises from Philadelphia to San Francisco.



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