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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green: Go Inside the Tent with Host Ben Austen
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The Last Days of Cabrini-Green: Go Inside the Tent with Host Ben Austen

Campside Producer Ashleyanne Krigbaum speaks with Austen about a shooting that played a key part in the rise and fall of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing complex

This is an episode of Inside the Tent, a podcast going behind the scenes of Campside’s award winning shows.

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In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green.

Through first-person accounts, original reporting, and dramatized scenes, Ben Austen and Harrison David Rivers tell the story of Dantrell Davis and his mother Annette Freeman – while at the same time exploring how Cabrini-Green’s rise and fall changed the course of American public housing.

Ashleyanne and Ben discuss the ambitious blend of fiction and non-fiction that transports listeners back to The Last Days of Cabrini-Green.

They also reflect on a visit to freezing Chicago to spend time with Annette and what the show says about the city itself.

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