Baig grew up in Rogers Park on Chicago’s north side, in a Pakistani Muslim household a few miles from the site of the Cabrini-Green public housing projects. The last tower was leveled in 2011.

It's about two kids in the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago in the early 1990s. Movies. Minhal Baig's 'We Grown Now' follows two Chicago kids in the early 1990s. April 28, 2024 8:04 AM ET.

Joint venture aims to redevelop Chicago’s Cabrini-Green with nearly 750 homes. ... The plan aimed to replace large public housing projects like Cabrini-Green with mixed-income communities.

Lyrical film juxtaposes the innocence of 10-year-old best friends in Cabrini-Green with the real-life murder of young Dantrell Davis. 'We Grown Now' review: A lovely but haunting Chicago snapshot ...

A close-knit Chicago family of meager means and hesitant dreams grapples with their sense of home in the plaintive indie drama “We Grown Now,” from writer-director Minhal Baig. Set in the high ...

Minhal Baig's movie, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, reflects on Black boyhood in '90s Chicago and the meaning of home.

The CHA tore down Cabrini-Green’s infamous towers as part of its Plan for Transformation, a program launched in the 1990s to replace its big public housing projects with mixed-income communities.

Last year brought us proposals for new sports stadiums and the end of one of Chicago's most notorious holes. What's in store for Chicago development in 2025? Here are the big projects on our radar ...

The Last Days of Cabrini-Green tells the story of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis and his mother Annette Freeman.. Davis was shot on his way to school on Oct. 13, 1992. His mother was walking him there ...

Cabrini-Green was a federally funded housing project that housed 15,000 people at its peak and became infamous for poverty and crime. It was demolished between 2000 and 2011.

Can we really trust tears as a sign of a film’s quality? A century of so many shameless, relentless cinematic mediocrities suggest the answer is no. If a movie will stop at nothing in its ...