North side nostalgia

Last week, I wrote about Lathrop Homes and the Chicago Housing Authority's plans to build a mixed-income community there. 

Residents, current and former, are fighting back, saying their diverse, unique community deserves to be rehabbed, not razed.

Lathrop, which surrounds the intersection of Clyborn and Diversey, is a fixture that many of us Northsiders are familiar with. I thought I'd include a few pictures so you could see what your neighborhood looked like back in the 30s when Lathrop was being built. The city looked very different back then.