CHICAGO 1954

City at a crossroads

Chicago confronts urban blight, 1954

 

Caption from LIFE

"Two slum buildings, soon to be razed and replaced by vast housing project, bracket the Palmolive Building [later the Playboy Building] a few blocks east in Chicago."

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