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Hilliard Towers Apartments

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Hilliard Towers Apartments

In the architecture of these massive public housing projects lies the South Side's tongue-in-cheek answer to the North Side's Marina City — in fact, they were built by the same architect, '''Bertrand Goldberg'''. With its enormous corncob towers and northern semicircular wall, the Hilliard Homes are

impossible to miss when traveling between Downtown and Chinatown. Despite the architectural distinction of being the only public housing projects to get on the National Register of Historic Places, the towers have not always been a great place to live, suffering from urban blight similar to that found in public housing throughout the country. The complex is currently undergoing a major renovation that will lead to the creation of a mixed-income residential development.

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