User talk:Kram218179

Information about Bridgeview being compared to cabrini-green is, as I have already said,” symbolic" and holds a "special significance" with the "Arab projects." I have given surveys to Bridgeview residents (7 out of the 9 surveyors from Arab descent) who call this area the "Arab projects."  Compare this situation to New City’s (community area of Chicago) the “Back of the Yards.”   Residents of the neighborhood of the union stock exchange still call their neighborhood the "back of the yards."  The reason the “Arab projects” is symbolic with cabrini-green is oblivious.  The name "Arab projects" holds a key term, 'Projects.'  The most notorious housing project in Illinois has been Cabrini-green’s housing projects.  Information on this claim was based on surveys of residents of Bridgeview living on 90th and Harlem to 99th and Harlem.  I am quite surprised that you have never heard of the “Arab projects.”  And if you are familiar with the Arab projects, I am very surprised you had not noticed the symbolism. Everyone calls that part of Harlem the Arab projects as a reference to Cabrini-green's housing projects. The symbolism is almost synonymous. You being a resident of Bridgeview, I am sure you are familiar with the high concentration of Arabs around your neighborhood. The name is called “Arab projects” for many reasons including: Arabs in Bridgeview with low income live in these apartment buildings, an Arab gang that has spread in this area, the numerous amounts of illegal busts that have occurred in the area involving middle easterners. (When I talk about crime, I am talking about misdemeanors, fraud, money laundering, and drug trafficking. -Also the incident that has occurred on 79th and Harlem that shut down a biker restaurant involved ties to the gang, “the Arabian posse.”  Although, further investigation still needs to be preformed.  There is more information that is still not evident or provable. -) The majority of criminals that are of Middle Eastern descent in the Chicago land area live along Bridgeview. (Burbank in the past has held this record, up until 1993) This is typical since it is where low-income middle easterners have been residing. (This is in no way racial; however, when people with low income reside in one particular low-income area, more crime is committed. This is based on criminal stats and history.) People refer to this area as the projects, because they see it as a “ghetto” and therefore people called it the “Arab projects.”  This information is based on surveys, census results, and crime statistics. I am in the process of citing my information, as should you for your history about Bridgeview.

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I do understand what your saying and I agree. Apparently, what I was trying to convey did not come out as clearly as I had hoped. The “Arab Projects” was a name given by many intending it to be metaphoric or figurative to Cabrini-green. People looked at Arabs in that neighborhood, seeing them together in apartment buildings and gave the area the name, the “projects,” as a way to try to illustrate an area where the most of the Arabs resided. The term “Arab projects” is somewhat of a humorous analogy people use to describe the area. I agree that I have not conveyed my point thoroughly and will alter my input. If you have any other regards or if you oppose with any other points please get back to me. My goal is to give this website accurate information that can help others. I mean wikipedia is the only well known website that can give history and past tales of the suburbs.