Mainstreet USA Chicago Illinois – 27 Aug 07 – Part 1
Al Jazeera’s Dave Marash explores Cabrini Green, a notorious public housing development on the north side of Chicago now largely pulled down, and talks to residents, many of whom allege they were hastily forced into other slums, and denied social services to get a leg up in society.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
WGN-TV’s Julian Crews takes his ever popular “Cruisin’ Illinois” series (get it?) to Chicago’s 3rd tallest building, the John Hancock Tower. This guy’s got guts, standing on the edge of a 1200 foot building. Check it out.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Many public housing project and historically Black neighborhoods were constructed on toxic waste landfills, dumps, and toxic coal waste and incinerator waste wer used as fill dirt. These chemicals cause both medical and mental problems that could be responsible for much of the sickness, death, and violence that goes on in these neighborhoods. I believe all these neighborhood should be inspected for toxic waste. Today, many public housing are? being demolished to cover up the toxic waste issues
@poitrenaud leave mexico out of this u fuck head!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@porkschoppers
You racist fuck. So many things wrong with what you said. What does the UK have to do with African Americans? Nothing. Two, most black people aren’t in gangs or on drugs. Where the fuck where you in second grade, when they taught people about stereotyping?
UGH.
Them shitheads bbq’d in the bathtubs in those roach infested slums!
You’re probably a Liberal. BUT, if the Soviet Union does that, that’s okey; right?
In Soviet Russia, none of these people would get an apartment if they don’t work-
I wish many people in America who believe USA is a “Bad” Nation, they should try Mexico, or maybe Cuba!!
You’ll see how “Their Justice” is–
You’d SWIM back to America
:40 – :44 d-money and big don lol
they did not work
slavery is long gone?
not to mention that chicago ave. does not pass at all through the heart of downtown. It passes through streeterville. Downtown is further south over the river.
moving south on chicago ave? uh- it is an east/west street
Please stop making so much sense, it’s obvious many people cannot comprehend that lol.
Well i have to comment on this why do you go on about slavery its long gone, African tribes used to raid each others rivals and slate tribes men to be sold to the whites for guns and stuff. Oh yeah its well documented that in the UK in the 1800s there where black slave owners. i think you will find with your freedom most have achieved nothing and most are in gangs or on drugs. that is there free will to do that shit not any white european.
U summed that up perfect. I agree 110%
School are especially built for kids who live in these areas? Wow, thats pretty harsh hey.. I thought they’d b given the right to go to any public school at least
How do you suppose they get a job (not a minimum wage job that would barely afford monthly rent, let alone any other bills or necessities) when their public schools don’t have proper supplies and students who aren’t in gangs are beaten and intimidated to join a gang (honestly, you get beat into joining)? If it was such a simple solution, it would have been solved by now. Please don’t think you’re the first to spout that garbage…
Go back to Europe white people
Why would they poop in the bathtub if they
had toilets?
thats true insertlettucehere cabrini green is bordered evergreen ave on the north,sedgwick on the east chicago ave on the south and larrabee on the west. if anyone here from chicago you kno these streets
Blacks were originally from Africa. Our ancestors were chained, beaten and brought here against their wills, by a white man. There was not one black man captaining a ship loaded with slaves coming to America. If your white men were not so weak that they could not even work their own land, and the women so timid, they could not care for their own children, let alone clean their own homes, we wouldn’t have had to be kidnapped and taken against our will. Whites brought us here, now deal with it!!
get a job, dont wait for handouts to pay the rent.
bring it on primate, i got sum sum for your ass…think whitey gonna lay down and take it you dumber than a y-town nigga. might have been born ohio but im south florida all the way..there some white gorllias in the mist too. see ya out there chimp….
Stop crying like a bitch … they are comming to your town , so take it like the man your susosed to be .Chump.
forgot option B ,there are a dzn farming communities that surround y-town, with wide open fields were the corn grows tall & they r dotted with the most wonderful oaks,branches stretch out across the horizen and they are strong enough to hold an engine block,the best part is you can go out in these fields parting & yell your fool head off & not a soul can hear you,perfect place for a meetin of the boys.everyone in oh knows if you lost it in a field dont bother lookin for it you will never find it
you getting everything we have to offer . And You will like it to. Take it or move.
how about you savages stay in your own fuckin city and stay out of youngstown, ill mind my bidniz when you people stop bringing the drugs and the murders in to my city. youngstown 2010 doesnt mean free handout to cabrini green rejects, we dont want your projects or your problems
my hometown and i went up there for some lunch
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@bjsh55 NO! JOHN HANCOCK
what a shot at :050
Chicago is best damn whole city in the whole wide world.
i wanna work at Shedd there and live there when i get older. 
I IZ COMIN FOR YEW CHICAGO!!11 >:D
@bjsh55 , no this is The John Hancock Center.Chicago’s 4th tallest building.
Chicago’s tallest buildings
1.Sears Tower(Willis Tower)-1,451 ft(1,730 ft to its pennicle height)
2.Trump Tower-1,389 ft
3.Aon Center-1,136 ft
4.JOHN HANCOCK CENTER-1,127 ft(1,500 ft to its pennicle hieght)
IS THIS THE SEARS TOWEr?
love it…
i’m romanian and i just wait to come here at the end of july 2010
chicago is the new newyork…. they are currently building a skyscraper that is over 600m tall
um, just a little bit of trivia… NO ONE Loves LA, not even the people that live there. And much of the West Coast, from about Bakersfield to the Oregon, and from Anaheimish to Mexico accurately HATES LA.
@SuperGoldfish1999 Why are you going to say ignorant shit over the internet? There’s nice cities all over the U.S. not just NYC and Cali. For you info Chicago is americas second city! So its not hated, Our president is from Chi-town. LOL New Yorkers and there attitudes. Lol and Im from New England.
@BearFan09 yeah Chicago is the worlds’ greatest city. NY sucks they dont even have alleys thats why NY has trash stacked all over their sidewalks.
hermosa ciudad!!!!!
2 WTC is best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
after september 11, i would be so paranoid to go into a skyscrapper this tall!
the Twin Towers were two of the best towers.
its so sad theyre gone.
fuck you all…lol…maryland is the best. thumbs up if u agree!
new yorkers hate chicago???…..dont think so many ppl. from nyc move hear because our home prices our alot cheaper,its cleaner,and pollution isnt as bad as nyc either. Its alot more livable than nyc thats why people move to chicago from nyc….
People from NYC don’t care about people from upstate, and I know that because I have taken interest and looked at different websites and pictures.
It depends what “people” you’re talking about. People from the midwest love Chicago. Chicago leads the midwest. People from the York/Jersey area love NYC. People from New England love Boston. People from the west love LA. It isn’t complicated, you’re just making it that way.
People in NYC don’t hate people from Upstate NY, people in NYC hate people in chicago and they also hate people in the South, actually. You’re just making shit up to be a Troll. Unless you’ve lived in NY and had experiences where people rom NYC said they “hated” people from Upstate, don’t try to tell me, a person who actually lives in NY, Lies like that.
And also you claimed that people “love chicago”. No, people love New York and California you ignorant faggot. chicago is hated in this country
1. I love New York’s buildings. It is definitely a beautiful city.
2. Chicago is way better.The Empire State building is 300+ feet shorter than the Sears Tower.
3. People from NYC hate people from upstate New York. You may like NYC, but New Yorkers see upstate as annoying.
4. Tons of people love Chicago. It is a huge tourist attraction, it might get the olympics, and, like I pointed out before, it has the best dining and sports in the United States.
Fuck you bitch, New York is the Best City in the World and The Empire State Building and the Statue Of Liberty and the upcoming Freedom Tower are the best buildings in the world. I’ve never been to Shitcago, and I’m never going to. I live in upstate NY (in Buffalo) and I’m originally from Toronto and everyone outside of Shitcago hates Shitcago
New York is 100 billion times better than Shitcago
New York’s skyscrapers don’t even come close to Chicago’s. 7 out of the top twenty skyscrapers in the US are located in Chicago, opposed to 5 in NYC. In the top five, 2 are from Chicago, compared to 1 in NYC. Most importantly, the tallest building on the western hemisphere is located in Chicago. Chicago was also voted the best city in America to dine, and Illinois was voted the number one sports state in the US by ESPN. Chicago owns NYC in every category.
chicago sucks ass
Where did they get all the black bricks from?