I was a block and a half from Robichaux Park.
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Damn Chicago representing in this bitch!
Born and raised in South Shore
Currently in Avalon Park
Damn my dude, I was in high school when that spot first opened and that was my SHIT!
Me and my crew used to have ditch parties and we would get like 30 wings with fries in that big ass aluminum pan. Add some drank, females, and Street Fighter II tournaments and you have some classic childhood memories.
Born and raised in South Shore
Currently in Avalon Park
Damn my dude, I was in high school when that spot first opened and that was my SHIT!
Me and my crew used to have ditch parties and we would get like 30 wings with fries in that big ass aluminum pan. Add some drank, females, and Street Fighter II tournaments and you have some classic childhood memories.
we neighbors nacca! I live over east on Jeffery and I'm about to close on a bldg over on Essex
Southeast sider!
Grams was on Saginaw, me 67th & oglesby, then hp.
Murray language academy, then mount Carmel!
I'm looking to buy a 3 unit in same area as you!
First lived on 67th & Champlain, then 79th & Loomis, then 31st & Michigan, then in HP off 53rd & Kimbark. Now I'm out in CC Hills
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Major props, man. I got the links saved, you can take them down before the mods get to it. Love Chicago music, especially steppin' music
Best city hands down, I started off on 73 cregier right down the street from south shore high school, moved to roseland 109 th and Vernon, we ended in the Beverly area went to St.Rita for high school, I love my city part of me wants to go back but a bigger part of me wants to end up in Cali so I imagine I will just have to come visit a little more. As for the women.......
Grew up in the Roseland area. 109th & Eberhart. Talk about the world being a small place.. Love my city. Lots of POSITIVE here but media only recognizes the NEG so FUCK EM......
Me too 116th
Yea...they closed that shit down a long time ago. Them wings used to be bigger than mofo! Most definitely had some steroids or something shot inside em. But I ate em anyways. It used to be a lot of gangbangin ninjas hanging out in front of or around that chicken shack. I didnt really go over there until I met a few people.
I remember in the 90's all the Brothas with those nice sports bikes used to be at the White Castle across the street. They used to have all kinds of fine ass females around em. but I was a young big head ninja....so all i could do was just watch,,,,,,lol
ninja. i was in that mfer with 5 dollars coming out FULL!!!
man u right around corner - 90th bennett
Nigga if u from the Chi and u don't know about Pete's, KILL YOSELF.... How about how Zentra used 2 be CRACKIN on Sunday's??? BITCH MANIA!!!!!!!
Major props, man. I got the links saved, you can take them down before the mods get to it. Love Chicago music, especially steppin' music
Damn I never knew it was this many chi-town peoples on the board. This shit like fight club fo' real, nigga's I see every day might be down like mutha fucka!
I stayed on Roosevelt and Finley in Lombard when I first went up there. Cracka central.
Then 3rd and Cicero.
Then 79th and S. May...
Lastly a corporate condo in Gold Coast for 3 months while working up there.
I survived a couple of winters and was like fuck that. Brought my country ass back to the south.
The Chi was cool though. Women loved my country accent. I fucked a couple of "urban models" and a gang of hoodrats. Got jammed up in Cooke County... Motherfuckers made everybody strip search no matter what the offense was. Fucking holding cell was a cage with 1000 niggas jam packed in that bitch. There was this one comedian with dreads in there that use to be on comicview.
I miss going downtown and hitting the casino right there on the border. Navy pier and Rain Forest cafe (it was good
). 
Oh and Arnie's... The shake junt that was in Harvey. I ain't seen that many thick bitches with flat stomachs again in one place in my life. Even in the A.
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shut yo ass up dog
u mad u stay in shitty dusty ass BK?
even Mike had to come to the chi
shut yo ass up dog
u mad u stay in shitty dusty ass BK?
even Mike had to come to the chi
BK niggas break in chump dudes like you lockers
Lot of chi-town reppin in here, Y'all got me missing Harold's and curts with the boss sauce
How many of y'all remember What's poppin'??
Yeah dude that owned the play die in a car accident.
Beat, we know you secretly wanna rep the Chi. Go ahead dog. It's cool.
Lot of chi-town reppin in here, Y'all got me missing Harold's and curts with the boss sauce
damn, forgot all 'bout curts & boss sauce!
i get my harolds & soul vegetarian in, when im home.
Lot of chi-town reppin in here, Y'all got me missing Harold's and curts with the boss sauce
I'mma take ALL y'all back. One word:
LEON'S
Know what i'm taum 'bout joe?
JG
-WHPK!
-kennedy king radio.
-who remembers when the bd's had an underground radio station,
playing cursing & all the shit?!
-kennedy king radio.
-who remembers when the bd's had an underground radio station,
playing cursing & all the shit?!
Yeah dun! Pink House R.I.P.
But what'chu know about the hip-hop events at the Blue Gargoyle back in the mid-late 80's . . . or the ILL house parties at the Hyde Park Racket ball Club!? DIMES GALORE walking around with PHAT ASSES and Laura Biagotti sunglasses!!!
JG
You confusing me with shady who desperately wants to be a Harlem dude
Only area I rep in Chicago is the north side where my aunt lives for the better part of 30 yrs
Foster ave north lake shore
Marine drive wit that top floor view of lake Michigan
Dusty ninjas like you and shady don't know nothing bout that
And you say Chi-City.. I coming home again......
Repping that South West-Near South Side... ABLA.. The Vill... 16's... When ever yall came to JEW Town and got robbed.. that was us! LOL...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABLA
ABLA was a public housing development made up of different public housing projects in Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for four different housing developments that together constituted one large site. Those four developments were: the Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes (including the Robert Brooks Extension), Loomis Courts, and the Grace Abbott Homes totaling 3,596 units. It spanned from Cabrini Street on the north to 15th Street on the south; and from Blue Island Avenue on the east to Ashland Avenue on the west. Most of ABLA has been razed for the Roosevelt Square mixed-income community development. For most of their existence the ABLA's held more than 17,000 residents (though only 8,500 were officially on the lease), giving it the second largest population in the CHA. It was second only to the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini–Green in land area and had a higher occupancy than Cabrini–Green.
Contents
* 1 Homes in ABLA
o 1.1 Jane Addams Homes
o 1.2 Robert Brooks Homes
o 1.3 Loomis Courts
o 1.4 Grace Abbott Homes
o 1.5 Robert Brooks Extension 16's
o 1.6 Cross Ashland
* 2 Existing conditions
o 2.1 Plan for transformation: mixed-income redevelopment
* 3 The "Vill"
* 4 References
Homes in ABLA
Jane Addams Homes
The Jane Addams Homes (one of the first housing projects) consisted of 32 buildings of 2, 3, and 4 storeys (987 units) built in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt's WPA Program. They were originally built to last 60 years.[citation needed] They were famous for their animal sculptures in the court area. The majority of the buildings have been demolished.
Robert Brooks Homes
Built in 1943, the original 835 rowhouse units were recently reconstructed (completed in two phases between 1997 and 2000) The $45 million CHA-funded renovation reduced unit density per acre and increased unit sites, resulting in 330 units of public housing.
Loomis Courts
Built in 1951, this 126-unit complex consists of 2 buildings of 7 stories each. It was built with City-State funds, not federal public housing funds. In 2005, the CHA started a 2-phase rehabilitation of the property that will result in all units being preserved as affordable rental housing. Rents will continue to be based on 30% of household income.
Grace Abbott Homes
Originally made up of 7 15-story buildings and 33 2-story rowhouse buildings (1,198 units), the Grace Abbott Homes were built in 1955. In 2005, four of the high-rise buildings were demolished, and the rest were demolished by 2007. This property is planned to be redeveloped in Phases 3-6 of the new Roosevelt Square mixed-income community.
Robert Brooks Extension
Built in 1961, this complex was made up of 3 16-story buildings (450 units). One building at 1239 S. Racine was demolished in 1998. The remaining 2 buildings were demolished in 2001. In 2005, Phase 1 of a new mixed-income development called Roosevelt Square was under construction on this site.
Cross Ashland
Just west of the ABLA's was small neighborhood affectionately known as "'cross Ashland". Named for the southern twang in which many residents of the downtown and the projects pronounced its location. Bordered by Ashland to the east, Western avenue on the west, the Fifteenth Place train tracks to the south and Roosevelt Rd. on the north. This area originally went as far north as Polk, pre-dating the Medical district. Many blacks and Jews lived in the area through much of the 20th century until the late sixties when most Jews, Poles and Italians moved away.
Cross Ashland also extended east all the way to Halsted. Before the ABLA homes were constructed many Blacks worked at the various railyard companies at Fifteenth street before the companies all moved to foreign lands and the suburbs. They were proud to leave the oppressive south and work arduous hours to feed families and attend barbecues.
In 2005 this community of roughly 10,000 in the fifties and 5,000 in the nineties was eventually brought to an end in a mass fire sale to land developers. Today the Cross Ashland area remains underdeveloped save for the new FBI building and University Police Station.
Existing conditions
ABLA once held over 17,000 residents but due to redevelopment only 2,100 residents remain. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Little Italy neighborhood and inner city Chicago in general) underwent a significant period of gentrification resulting in almost all of the Chicago Housing Authority's projects being demolished or slated for redevelopment. The University Village redevelopment of the general Maxwell Street neighborhood and the expansion of the south campus of University of Illinois at Chicago also contributed to the end of ABLA.
Plan for transformation: mixed-income redevelopment
The CHA's redevelopment plan for ABLA is named Roosevelt Square and includes 1,467 public housing units, of which 329 units were completed in 2000 as part of a complete rehab of the Brooks Homes and 383 off-site CHA replacement units were newly constructed. Construction of the remaining 775 on-site mixed-income units at Roosevelt Square began in 2004. ABLA's new physical design includes traditional Chicago-style buildings including single family homes and six-flat structures. In June 2005, the Chicago Park District reopened Fosco Park, a 57,000-square-foot (5,300 m2) community center which includes an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium and a new daycare facility. A new Jewel/Osco supermarket opened near ABLA in January 2002. The redevelopment plan also includes an integrated "campus" green space with Smyth School and Duncan YMCA. A new fire and police station was constructed near ABLA.
The "Vill"
The common nickname for the ABLA homes is "the village," or "the vill,"
Due to their proximity to downtown and the UIC Medical Center/University, the ABLAs can be seen in several films and television programs:
* The 80s police drama Hill Street Blues was set at a police station located two blocks east of ABLA. Stories from the show often involved situations there.
* In the 1987 film Next Of Kin many scenes were filmed in and around ABLA, most notably one in which Patrick Swayze hides from his pursuers inside the Robert Brooks Extension and bribes a young child to misdirect them.
* In the 2001 film Hardball, Keanu Reeves coaches a ragtag bunch of kids on an inner-city little league team. Almost half the film was shot at ABLA.
* Several episodes of ER, Chicago Hope and Early Edition have filmed scenes in and around the ABLA homes.
Repping that South West-Near South Side... ABLA.. The Vill... 16's... When ever yall came to JEW Town and got robbed.. that was us! LOL...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABLA
ABLA was a public housing development made up of different public housing projects in Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for four different housing developments that together constituted one large site. Those four developments were: the Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes (including the Robert Brooks Extension), Loomis Courts, and the Grace Abbott Homes totaling 3,596 units. It spanned from Cabrini Street on the north to 15th Street on the south; and from Blue Island Avenue on the east to Ashland Avenue on the west. Most of ABLA has been razed for the Roosevelt Square mixed-income community development. For most of their existence the ABLA's held more than 17,000 residents (though only 8,500 were officially on the lease), giving it the second largest population in the CHA. It was second only to the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini–Green in land area and had a higher occupancy than Cabrini–Green.
Contents
* 1 Homes in ABLA
o 1.1 Jane Addams Homes
o 1.2 Robert Brooks Homes
o 1.3 Loomis Courts
o 1.4 Grace Abbott Homes
o 1.5 Robert Brooks Extension 16's
o 1.6 Cross Ashland
* 2 Existing conditions
o 2.1 Plan for transformation: mixed-income redevelopment
* 3 The "Vill"
* 4 References
Homes in ABLA
Jane Addams Homes
The Jane Addams Homes (one of the first housing projects) consisted of 32 buildings of 2, 3, and 4 storeys (987 units) built in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt's WPA Program. They were originally built to last 60 years.[citation needed] They were famous for their animal sculptures in the court area. The majority of the buildings have been demolished.
Robert Brooks Homes
Built in 1943, the original 835 rowhouse units were recently reconstructed (completed in two phases between 1997 and 2000) The $45 million CHA-funded renovation reduced unit density per acre and increased unit sites, resulting in 330 units of public housing.
Loomis Courts
Built in 1951, this 126-unit complex consists of 2 buildings of 7 stories each. It was built with City-State funds, not federal public housing funds. In 2005, the CHA started a 2-phase rehabilitation of the property that will result in all units being preserved as affordable rental housing. Rents will continue to be based on 30% of household income.
Grace Abbott Homes
Originally made up of 7 15-story buildings and 33 2-story rowhouse buildings (1,198 units), the Grace Abbott Homes were built in 1955. In 2005, four of the high-rise buildings were demolished, and the rest were demolished by 2007. This property is planned to be redeveloped in Phases 3-6 of the new Roosevelt Square mixed-income community.
Robert Brooks Extension
Built in 1961, this complex was made up of 3 16-story buildings (450 units). One building at 1239 S. Racine was demolished in 1998. The remaining 2 buildings were demolished in 2001. In 2005, Phase 1 of a new mixed-income development called Roosevelt Square was under construction on this site.
Cross Ashland
Just west of the ABLA's was small neighborhood affectionately known as "'cross Ashland". Named for the southern twang in which many residents of the downtown and the projects pronounced its location. Bordered by Ashland to the east, Western avenue on the west, the Fifteenth Place train tracks to the south and Roosevelt Rd. on the north. This area originally went as far north as Polk, pre-dating the Medical district. Many blacks and Jews lived in the area through much of the 20th century until the late sixties when most Jews, Poles and Italians moved away.
Cross Ashland also extended east all the way to Halsted. Before the ABLA homes were constructed many Blacks worked at the various railyard companies at Fifteenth street before the companies all moved to foreign lands and the suburbs. They were proud to leave the oppressive south and work arduous hours to feed families and attend barbecues.
In 2005 this community of roughly 10,000 in the fifties and 5,000 in the nineties was eventually brought to an end in a mass fire sale to land developers. Today the Cross Ashland area remains underdeveloped save for the new FBI building and University Police Station.
Existing conditions
ABLA once held over 17,000 residents but due to redevelopment only 2,100 residents remain. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Little Italy neighborhood and inner city Chicago in general) underwent a significant period of gentrification resulting in almost all of the Chicago Housing Authority's projects being demolished or slated for redevelopment. The University Village redevelopment of the general Maxwell Street neighborhood and the expansion of the south campus of University of Illinois at Chicago also contributed to the end of ABLA.
Plan for transformation: mixed-income redevelopment
The CHA's redevelopment plan for ABLA is named Roosevelt Square and includes 1,467 public housing units, of which 329 units were completed in 2000 as part of a complete rehab of the Brooks Homes and 383 off-site CHA replacement units were newly constructed. Construction of the remaining 775 on-site mixed-income units at Roosevelt Square began in 2004. ABLA's new physical design includes traditional Chicago-style buildings including single family homes and six-flat structures. In June 2005, the Chicago Park District reopened Fosco Park, a 57,000-square-foot (5,300 m2) community center which includes an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium and a new daycare facility. A new Jewel/Osco supermarket opened near ABLA in January 2002. The redevelopment plan also includes an integrated "campus" green space with Smyth School and Duncan YMCA. A new fire and police station was constructed near ABLA.
The "Vill"
The common nickname for the ABLA homes is "the village," or "the vill,"
Due to their proximity to downtown and the UIC Medical Center/University, the ABLAs can be seen in several films and television programs:
* The 80s police drama Hill Street Blues was set at a police station located two blocks east of ABLA. Stories from the show often involved situations there.
* In the 1987 film Next Of Kin many scenes were filmed in and around ABLA, most notably one in which Patrick Swayze hides from his pursuers inside the Robert Brooks Extension and bribes a young child to misdirect them.
* In the 2001 film Hardball, Keanu Reeves coaches a ragtag bunch of kids on an inner-city little league team. Almost half the film was shot at ABLA.
* Several episodes of ER, Chicago Hope and Early Edition have filmed scenes in and around the ABLA homes.
along w/ 'DAT DONUTS!!!
I remember both of those, I liked I-57 BBQ the most, but everyone had to eat Leon's once, what about Kenny's or doc's or jj's, Jew town polishes or pork chop samiches, even Taurus flavorsI remember Kennedy king radio I used to record a lot of the shows on tape just to have music to listen to when doing homework or cleaning up, they would expose you to a wide diverse array of music
i used to always go to the one off 79th and stoney island when i was a shorty. it sat right in the back/across the street from petes chicken shack. It was one in Englewood too. off 59th and Racine. they say that was the first one..but i dont know.
Back then I lived on 82nd and chapple. down the street from what used to be Horace Mann Elementary school. My Moms and Pops used to hang at Parks lounge. it used to be over there on 83rd street. a few blocks east of south chicago. it was just a few doors down from KFC. Dont know if its stil there.
as for Harolds...the best Harold imho is on 103 and halsted. But now that i live in Hyde Park...I usually just go to the one off 47th and Indiana. Sometimes i go to the one in that strip mall on 87th off the dan ryan... if im riding past that area.
yep! Late at night they did used to play a lot of songs with the curse words. I used to always record the songs off that station on my cassettes.
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I know ALL them areas you speaking on. Before my teenage years, I lived on 83rd and Ingleside. Did grade school at Arthur Ashe (formerly John Sbarbaro).
We used to go swimming at Avalon park.
The Chi is crazy small in terms of degrees of separation. Another reason I needed to bounce, felt like I was gonna grow old with the same heads from my childhood. But the summers at Washington Park are always memorable.
You live in HP . . . so you know where to get the good music from [Dr. Wax]!
I forget the name of that BBQ joint right on the 'tre'. All I buy from there is a big ass bag of fries smothered in bbq sauce.
JG
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