For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green.

Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social experiment: mixed-income neighborhoods.

Shot over the course of 20-years, 70 Acres in Chicago documents this upheaval, from the razing of the first buildings in 1995, to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods a decade later.
70 Acres in Chicago tells the volatile story of this hotly contested patch of land, while looking unflinchingly at race, class, and who has the right to live in the city.

Joining us for a post film Q&A is the films director, Ronit Belazel.

Watch the trailer here.

This is a special event co-sponsored by the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family.

Free parking at the City Hall Parking Garage. Validate your ticket at the concession stand.

Although the film is free, please consider bringing donations of clothing and/or feminine hygiene products for a local non-profit Women4Women Tempe.