Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Sheila Radford-Hill
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II WENTWORTH GARDENS' HISTORIC CONTEXT
- PART III EVERYDAY RESISTANCE IN THE EXPANDED PRIVATE SPHERE
- PART IV TRANSGRESSIVE RESISTANCE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
- 8 The White Sox “Battle”: Protest and Betrayal
- 9 Linking Legal Action and Economic Development: Tensions and Strains
- 10 Becoming Resident Managers: A Bureaucratic Quagmire
- PART V CONCLUSIONS
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Timeline of Wentworth Gardens Resident Activists' Key Initiatives
- Appendix B A Demographic Profile of the Resident Community Activists Interviewed, 1992–1998
- References
- Index
8 - The White Sox “Battle”: Protest and Betrayal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Sheila Radford-Hill
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II WENTWORTH GARDENS' HISTORIC CONTEXT
- PART III EVERYDAY RESISTANCE IN THE EXPANDED PRIVATE SPHERE
- PART IV TRANSGRESSIVE RESISTANCE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
- 8 The White Sox “Battle”: Protest and Betrayal
- 9 Linking Legal Action and Economic Development: Tensions and Strains
- 10 Becoming Resident Managers: A Bureaucratic Quagmire
- PART V CONCLUSIONS
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Timeline of Wentworth Gardens Resident Activists' Key Initiatives
- Appendix B A Demographic Profile of the Resident Community Activists Interviewed, 1992–1998
- References
- Index
Summary
[I]t was decided and approved that we would choose the name – Wentworth Garden Residents United for Survival – because we felt at that point that's what we really would be. Because here were the White Sox right up on us threatening to take our home, and here's CHA doing nothing for us in here. It was the only name that really fit what we were about to be about!
Mrs. Hallie AmeyIt was the threat to the physical survival of Wentworth Gardens and its surrounding neighborhood posed by the proposed the new Chicago White Sox stadium that brought Wentworth residents into the political arena to engage in battle to protect their homes. A newspaper article showing the plans for the new Comiskey Park, which required the demolition of part of the Wentworth Gardens development, was their impetus to take action. According to Mrs. Amey:
[A]long around that time, around the end of 1986, then came out a newspaper with a map with the White Sox's listing taking up to 38th Street, and so that was it! That's what made everybody's hair stand up on end.
The activists agreed that they had no choice but to fight the proposed stadium. Not only was their home threatened by an irresponsible CHA, but their development and surrounding neighborhood now faced destruction. They were outraged by their lack of opportunities to participate in the stadium planning process.
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- The Dignity of ResistanceWomen Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing, pp. 213 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004