Decades after residents left and the Chicago Housing Authority complexes were leveled, dirt is being turned as part of an ongoing effort to restore a North Lawndale community.
Hundreds of apartments in two neighboring CHA properties, Ogden Courts and Lawndale Complex, were demolished in the early 2000s. The Ogden site, across from Mount Sinai Medical Center on Ogden Avenue, became a parking lot. Less than a block to the north, the Lawndale site, at 13th Street and Washtenaw Avenue, remained an overgrown vacant lot.
