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Chicago's police problem: despite a long history of scandals and abuse, the city has yet to discipline and reform its police department.(FEATURE)
DIANE BOND WAS KNOWN as a cheerful, positive presence in Stateway Gardens, one of Chicago's infamous high-rise public housing projects. A middle-aged single mother who is a janitor for the Chicago Public Schools, she took pride in her work. "I love taking care of the kids and cleaning up after them," she says.
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With an inner toughness and courage belied by her affable demeanor, Bond had built a stable life after a difficult youth that included gang rape and incest.
But on April 13, 2003, her world was shattered by a group of Chicago police officers known locally as "the Skullcap Crew." According to a civil rights lawsuit later filed on her behalf, four officers approached her around 5 p.m. in the hallway of the building where she lived, and one of them put a gun against her head. Then, they allegedly took her keys from her hand, forced her inside the apartment, handcuffed her and proceeded to ransack her home and terrorize her. One officer allegedly brought her inside the bathroom and forced her to expose her genitals repeatedly as he "stared and smirked"; another officer ...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) August 23, 2006 700+ words
...building in the Stateway Gardens public housing complex on Chicago's South Side...for a team from Stateway Gardens. The complex...as part of the Chicago Housing Authority...living in the last Stateway Gardens building near...
- University of Chicago Law School Sponsors 'The View from the Ground'...
- News wire article from: AScribe Law News Service April 20, 2007 700+ words
...encompassed the Stateway Gardens public housing...development on Chicago's South...60th St., Chicago. The idea...years at the Stateway Gardens public housing...the former Stateway Gardens, which was...part of the Chicago Housing Authority...
- Nation's poorest citizens living in Chicago housing developments: study.
- Magazine article from: Jet February 13, 1995 700+ words
...recently revealed. The Stateway Gardens development in Chicago is reported to be the...nationwide. Residents at Stateway Gardens had a 1989 per-capita...in the nation are: 1. Stateway Gardens (Chicago) 2. Robert Taylor Homes...
- Lack of force: the Chicago Housing Authority pays the Chicago Police Department...
- Magazine article from: The Chicago Reporter Rogal, Brian J. Johns, Mary C. July 1, 2004 700+ words
...home of the Chicago White Sox, sits...blocks west of the Stateway Gardens public housing...around from Chicago Housing Authority...high-rise at Stateway Gardens and sits about a block away from Chicago Police Department...
- Former Chicago Jazz, Blues Neighborhood Undergoes Revitalization.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 1, 2002 700+ words
...Bronzeville, the South Side Chicago neighborhood about 3 miles...erasing the high-rises of Stateway Gardens and Robert Taylor Homes. The Stateway Gardens project, to be built...of development for the Chicago Housing Authority. While...
- Midpoint in Chicago's housing overhaul; The ambitious public-housing plan could...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor November 17, 2003 700+ words
...Christian Science Monitor CHICAGO -- From the upper floors of Stateway Gardens, the view is inspiring...from a postcard-perfect Chicago skyline. Comiskey Park...rises that once made up Stateway Gardens - a public-housing development...
- Two Chicago Architects To Be Named Fellows of the American Institute of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 3, 2007 700+ words
...elevate design standards in Chicago's African low-income...Kennedy King College in Chicago and Park Boulevard (the rebuilding of the Stateway Gardens housing complex). Lee has served on the board of AIA Chicago. Kerwin and Lee are among...
- History museum tours elevate Chicago's past.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 28, 2007 700+ words
...program dating back to the Chicago History Museum's days as...once destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. Making our way down...visible, we saw the remnants of Stateway Gardens, now a gutted-out tower...slabs, a fitting tombstone to Chicago's oft-times unpleasant...