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In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.

Through first-person accounts, original reporting, and dramatized scenes, The Last Days of Cabrini-Green tells the story of Dantrell Davis and his mother Annette Freeman and how Cabrini-Green’s rise and fall changed the course of American public housing.

Please note: The Last Days of Cabrini-Green has some fictionalized accounts of real events, including violence.

This is a co-production from At Will Media & Campside Media.

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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green is produced by At Will Media and Campside Media

Writers: Ben Austen & Harrison David Rivers
Director: Theresa Buchheister
Managing Producer: Ashleyanne Krigbaum
Senior Supervising Producer: Ashley Taylor
Producer: Abukar Adan, Lee Mengistu, with support from Tina Turner
Factchecker: Willis Arnold
Director of Post-Production: Seth Richardson
Sound Designer & Vocal Editing: Marisa Ewing and Melissa Pons of Hemlock Creek Productions in Chicago
Sound Engineer: Zach Grappone
Original music composed by: Julian Davis Reid, and performed by: Isaiah Collier, Micah Collier, Wesley Julien, and The JuJu Exchange, which is: Nico Segal, Nova Zaii, Dwayne Verner, Jr. and Julian Davis Reid.

Voice Performers: Patina Miller, Corey Stoll & Harry Lennis
Additional Performers: Andrea Gallo, Andrew Call, Bodhi Jordan Dell, Carter Young, Eric Lockley, Harry Bouvy, Jordan Bellow, Krystina Alabado, LaNisa Renee Frederick, Maia, Marlo Su, Nate Eco, Ron Scott and Sean James Bolger
Casting by: Daryl Eisenberg and Ally Beans of Eisenberg/Beans Casting

For Campside Media:
Executive Producers: Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Hoff, Matt Shaer
Operations Team: Doug Slawin, Ashley Warren, Sabina Mara, Emma Simonoff, Destiny Dingle, David Eichler

For Audible:
Executive Producer: Anna Stitt
Audible’s Chief Content Officer: Rachel Ghiazza

Thank you to filmmakers Sudhir Ventakesh and Ronit Bezalel for allowing use of their documentary footage. And Valerie Kyriakopoulos at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

The team would also like to express immense gratitude to everyone who gave their time to us for this project, including: Annette Freeman, Eric Davis, J.R. Fleming, Anthony Garrett, Ethan Michaeli, Lisa Lee at the National Public Housing Museum, and Jennifer Blagg. As well as the numerous people who shared their experiences with Ben Austen during his research for the book High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.