Ida B. Wells Homes
Chicago, United States of America
The Ida B. Wells Homes, which also included the Clarence Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes, was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, bordered by 35th Street to the north, Pershing Road (39th Street) to the s
outh, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, and Martin Luther King Drive to the west. The Ida B. Wells Homes consisted of rowhouses, mid-rises, and high-rise apartment buildings, constructed between 1939 and 1941 to house African American tenants. They were closed and demolished between 2002 and 2011. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), the civil rights advocate and investigative journalist, lived nearby, and The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument was dedicated in the neighborhood in 2022.
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