ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Former members of the troubled community once hailed as an answer to the city’s housing crisis gathered on Sunday at the site of the now long-demolished Pruitt-Igoe ...
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. One of the Pruitt-Igoe buildings is brought down by dynamite implosion on April 29, 1972. The series of demolitions attracted spectators, ...
The Pruitt-Igoe housing development was hailed as a national model when it opened in 1954. Poor construction, maintenance issues, crime, and failed social policies, led to its downfall in the 1970s, ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ben Phillips’ childhood memories include basketball games with friends, and neighbors gathering in the summer shade at their St. Louis housing complex. He also remembers watching men ...
Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips hold a photo of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, where they lived growing up on Sept. 7, 2023. The Army sprayed a potential carcinogen ...
Former residents of a low-income, majority-Black housing development in St. Louis, Missouri, are seeking restitution from the US Army over a Cold War-era testing program they say made them ill. Ben ...
On July 23, 1953, St. Louis'' first integrated public housing, Igoe, accepted its first four white and three black families. Between it and Pruitt, which housed black families, there were 33 ...
Older Americans will remember the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St Louis in 1972. It was built in 1954 with the best of intentions and designed with the expert opinion of social ...
Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips hold a photo of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis, where they lived growing up on Sept. 7, 2023. (Jim Salter/AP) ST. LOUIS — Ben Phillips’ ...
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