William Mullen

Perhaps some day a historical marker should be erected in a Chicago area once known as ''Little Hell,'' the prototypical big-city American neighborhood. The marker could stand as a symbol...

Most of the people who were instrumental in planning Cabrini-Green and the larger, even more massive high-rise projects patterned after it are now its severest critics. After 30 years of...

The most common criticism of the high-rise public housing complexes is that it was sheer folly to put large families of small children in apartments above three stories. ''It seems...