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.
I had heard many versions of the Comiskey targets story, never knew if it was factual?
One of the projects near a factory with large refrigeration units on the roof, a favored target for the locals!
Putting a hole in a copper refrigerant coil produces a large plume of freon!
Oh how exciting!
They mounted plate barriers on the side next to CHA building.
Also Ed Vrdolyak, a Chicago heavy hitter attempted to move the CHA offices to the vacant upper floors of Taylor Homes!
For many years the CHA population would have made it the third largest city in Illinois!