That would be an improvement on the Chicago Housing Authority!
Each morning a PAID crew would pick up the overnight trash, that was thrown from the windows overnight.
At Taylor holmes, they had a unique design, the elevators are on the exterior of the building, not the central core, where it is nice and warm and DRY.
In addition to the ‘residents’ playing on the top of the car, while running, wind driven rain would find it’s way into the elevator controls. They were often out of service.
When living on the upper floors this meant the stairs, typically (depends on the building) full of trash and used diapers.
If you had seniority you could wait for a vacancy on a low floor, or if you knew of an opening; set your unit on fire!
From the Dan Ryan expressway the burn and smoke marks was visible on most of the upper units.
I worked there in the early 1980’s. Taylor, Cabrini, Wells...
I remember seeing the row of those Robert Taylor high-rises along the Dan Ryan during my military assignment at MEPCOM in North Chicago in the early 1990s. My wife's family is from the Kankakee area and when we'd travel down there we'd hope and pray the car didn't break down. The was the era before cell phones.
And yep.. I remember seeing the burn residue from some windows. What a friggin' mess.
Also (and you might remember this too), I was told the part of Comiskey Park facing RTH had to be enclosed because some of the "residents" were shooting from the upper floors into the stadium.