| Dearborn Homes | |
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 2009 photograph of two Dearborn Homes buildings shortly after renovation. | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Bordered by 27th Street, 30th Street, State Street, and Federal Street Chicago, Illinois,  United States |
| Coordinates | 41°50′35″N 87°37′40″W / 41.8431°N 87.6278°W |
| Status | 660 units; Renovated |
| Construction | |
| Constructed | 1949–50 |
| Other information | |
| Governing body | Chicago Housing Authority |
Dearborn Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is located along State Street between 27th and 30th Streets, and bounded by the Metrarail line to the west. It is one of only two housing projects that still exist from the State Street Corridor which included other CHA developments: Robert Taylor Homes, Stateway Gardens, Harold Ickes Homes and Hillard Homes.
The project occupies 16 acres (6.5 ha) and consists of mid-rise, six-story, and nine-story buildings.[1] They were designed in modernist style by Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett, with cruciform towers to allow for ventilation and light, placed in a parklike setting.[2][3][4] There were 800 units.[2][5]
- ^ Dearborn Homes Archived 2012-01-30 at the Wayback Machine, Chicago Housing Authority
- ^ a b Blair Kamin, "CHA architecture gets it right with Dearborn Homes: New limestone decorations transform the buildings from hulking to inviting, and the update has improved the interior too," Cityscapes, Chicago Tribune, May 22, 2009; repr. "CHA Polishes Its Rough Edges: Architect dresses up the Dearborn Homes, Georgian Style, and Upgrades Living Spaces Inside," in Blair Kamin, Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age, Chicago: University of Chicago, 2010, ISBN 9780226423135, pp. 244–47.
- ^ D. Bradford Hunt, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, Historical studies of urban America, Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009, ISBN 9780226360850, p. 123.
- ^ Progressive Architecture 52 (1981) 57.
- ^ Donna Leinwand, "Raids target gang ring behind deadly heroin," USA Today, June 22, 2006.