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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green

By: Ben Austen, Harrison David Rivers
Narrated by: Ben Austen, Patina Miller, Harry Lennix, Corey Stoll
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In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.

Through first-person accounts, original reporting, and dramatized scenes, The Last Days of Cabrini-Green tells the story of Dantrell Davis and his mother Annette Freeman and how Cabrini-Green’s rise and fall changed the course of American public housing.

Please note: The Last Days of Cabrini-Green has some fictionalized accounts of real events, including violence.

This is a co-production from AT WILL MEDIA and Campside Media.

©2024 At Will Media (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC Americas Black & African American Corruption & Misconduct Politics & Government True Crime United States
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The accidental death by shooting of a seven years old boy on his way to school with his mother initiated a response essentially against the whole area which was supposed to be made better but which, in reality, benefited almost everyone except the residents living there at the time. It looks beyond the immediate to the wider issues of financial and social poverty.
A little clunky at times but mostly well told with multi person participation in the telling of this really sad story. Very much recommended and free to download from the Audible Plus programme

Everyone knows Cabrini-Green."

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