Andersonville is a very cool area of Chicago. Great pizza up there at Great Lakes Pizza.
Cabrini Green at it's height had about 20,000 people living there and it got really bad. Gangs shooting at each other from opposite high rises, people being thrown off roof tops, girls being raped and blinded in stairwells. Bad stuff.
They are all torn down now(highrises). Putting up a target in there place now, IIRC. The row houses are there but I don't know if anyone lives in them. I think they are all abandoned. Moved away about 2 years ago- so not 100% sure.
Drove through Cabrini with my family around 1991, sister was going to De Paul and we made a WRONG turn. Not a good mistake. Rocks, garbage and whatever they could find was thrown at our Suburban. Place was nuts.
The row houses are not abandoned. They are still about 2/5 fill, and there is still a fair amount of crime there, though nothing even close to the heyday.
Although for murders in the downtown vicinity of Chicago, there are basically only two places where there has been even a moderately high concentration of homicides the last few years--the entrance to Cabrini on Chicago Ave. and the dance clubs in River North.
(By downtown I mean basically what people are calling River North these days... plus Streeterville and the Gold Coast.)
About three people have been killed right there over the last few years. Drug dealing.
