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A close-knit Chicago family of meager means and hesitant dreams grapples with their sense of home in the plaintive indie drama “We Grown Now,” from writer-director Minhal Baig. Set in the high-rises ...

It has been more than ten years since the last of the Cabrini-Green high-rises—housing complexes that were built in 1942 to be affordable and safe housing for low-income residents—were demolished.

In the 1980s and 90s, Chicago's now-demolished Cabrini-Green was a housing project notorious for crime and neglect. But critic Bob Mondello says a new movie called "We Grown Now" suggests that if you ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Minhal Baig, who wrote and directed the new movie "We Grown Now." It's about two kids in the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago in the early 1990s. Picture two ...

The U.S. premiere of writer-director Minhal Baig’s “We Grown Now” — a gentle, powerful coming-of-age gem set in 1992, detailing the friendship of two boys growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing ...

"The Last Days of Cabrini-Green" leans on headlines and actual community accounts to give listeners a deeper understanding of life in and around the well known public housing. "The Last Days of ...