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Podcast: The Block Club Chicago Podcast
Episode: The Life, Death, And Rebirth Of Chicago's Famous Rosenwald Apartments
Description: Nothing is the same at the apartment building where Mary Buford raised her family. The once-neglected courtyards on the side of the building are flush with grass and a rainbow of florals. In her first visit back in decades, Buford was quietly impressed at what has become of the complex.She’ll be the first to tell you that living in the former Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments was one of the high points of her life, and she is forever indebted to the chosen family of neighbors who saw her and her children through weddings, funerals and al...