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- Named for Black journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, the housing project was constructed between 1939 and 1941 as a Public Works Administration project to house Black families in the "ghetto", by federal regulations requiring public housing projects to maintain the segregation of neighborhoods.
aaregistry.org/story/ida-b-wells-homes/The 'Ida B. Wells Homes' Are Built - African American Registry
Named after Wells, the Ida B. Wells Homes were a series of rowhouses, mid-rise and high-rise apartment buildings, constructed in 1941 to house Black families in the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. When the homes first opened, more than 18,000 families applied to live in the 1,600-unit complex.
Named after Wells, the Ida B. Wells Homes were a series of rowhouses, mid-rise and high-rise apartment buildings, constructed in 1941 to house Black families in the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. When the homes first opened, more than 18,000 families applied to live in the 1,600-unit complex.
The Ida B. Wells Homes consisted of row houses, mid-rises, and high-rise apartment buildings constructed to house African American tenants. They were demolished beginning in 2002 and ending in 2011.
The Ida B. Wells Homes, which also comprised the Clarence Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes, was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Oct 27, 2018 · October 27, 1971 – The announcement is made that plans are complete for an 800-unit building that will sit on the lakefront border of the Illinois Center development being created over a former railroad freight yard.
The original name of the projects was to be the South Parkway Garden Homes but before construction it was renamed the “Ida B. Wells Homes” in June of 1939, named after Ida B. Wells who was an African American civil rights activist.
Aug 27, 2021 · July 30, 1939 - The Ida B. Wells Homes are Built (AAReg). Excerpt: "On this date in 1939, The Ida B. Wells Homes are celebrated. It was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project. It was located in the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood of the city.
