CHA gives green light to mixed-use projects at LeClaire Courts, two other sites

A rendering of a building planned at the LeClaire Courts site, looking northwest from 45th Street and Cicero Avenue. (Chicago Housing Authority)

The Chicago Housing Authority authorized three new residential developments Tuesday, mixed-income complexes in public-private partnerships that together promise 357 rental units within three years, many set aside for families on the agency’s waiting list.

Among the projects moving forward is the long-delayed redevelopment of the former LeClaire Courts public housing site west of Cicero Avenue and south of Stevenson Expressway. LeClaire was a townhouse-style complex from the 1950s that contrasted with the one-time fashion of high-rises for the poor, but the agency cleared the site in 2011 after the homes deteriorated.