Inside Chicago’s Helmut Jahn–Designed Supportive Housing Development

Within blocks of the infamous Cabrini-Green complex, the Schiff Residences have become a model for bringing dignity and green design to the down-and-out in the Windy City.
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s November 2008 issue.

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Edward Lifson
In between finishing a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard and beginning an Annen-berg Fellowship at the University of Southern California, Edward Lifson took a tour of “the train,” Chicago’s Margot and Harold Schiff Residences.

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