![]() ![]() ![]() There are many decades worth of history that produced Finally Rich, Chief Keef’s debut album, an onomatopoeic, flawed, but nonetheless electrifying depiction of portaling one’s way out of street life and into luxury. When you eliminate all those things from a community - men not in the household and education failing - it will be a drastic difference than what the first lady of the United States and her family experienced.” Corey Brooks told the Chicago Sun-Times, before explaining how the once-proud community had changed: “The environment was family-focused. “You have kids on both sides who are fenced in because of their conflicts with each other,” the Rev. Rival gang members were forced onto the same shrinking turf, escalating tensions. The nearby Randolph Towers - 144 apartments spread across 16 buildings - which had been a GD stronghold before it was demolished in 2007, sent many of its occupants to Parkway. In the 21st century, Parkway Gardens has become a battleground for the gangs, the Black Disciples and the Gangster Disciples. “Many of today’s problems in the inner-city neighborhoods - crime, family dissolution, welfare - are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work,” a 1996 New York Times Magazine feature by William Julius Wilson summarized. “Street sweeps,” a preventative measure taken against gangs, led to the arrests of thousands of Black and Latin residents, and the Black Belt saw a dramatic drop in employment rates. ![]() Holsman, a suburb on Chicago's “Black Belt” that, by 1976, had become home to a burgeoning Black middle class that included the families of Michelle Obama and Gordon Parks. With the formation of predominantly Black communities came Parkway Garden Homes, one of the last low-income housing projects designed by the architect Henry K. “Redlining” practices pushed them into overcrowded ghettos on the West and South Sides. Daley’s city planning uprooted Black families from their homes. ![]() As the sun set on the ’60s, Chicago mayor Richard J. ![]()
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