The Nation - News from May 10, 1989

The Chicago Housing Authority turned over a public housing project to its 3,500 tenants to run themselves in the first such agreement in that city. Management of the 615-unit LeClaire Courts on the city’s Southwest Side changed hands at a ceremony attended by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, Mayor Richard M. Daley and city housing chief Vincent Lane. Unlike many of Chicago’s public-housing projects, LeClaire Courts is a complex of low-rise structures, most of them two-story apartment buildings separated by wide lawns and residential streets. During the past year, tenants participated in joint management of the project, receiving on-the-job training.