Carol Steele, ‘queen of Cabrini-Green’ and longtime public housing activist, dead at 72

Carol Steele watches as demolition begins on the last high-rise at Cabrini-Green on March 30, 2011. Steele served as local advisory council president for Cabrini-Green for years and fought to preserve the development’s row houses. (Associated Press)

Carol Steele, longtime Cabrini-Green local advisory council president and public housing activist, died Aug. 3. She was 72.

Her brother, Ronald McDonald, said she had battled illness for “quite some time.”