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Age 7 in America

LeRoy lives in an apartment building (part of the Robert Taylor housing project) in the South Side of Chicago.

Beauty Turner

For 16 years, Turner lived in the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the nation's most well known public housing.

Kirby Puckett

Puckett was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on Chicago's South Side (the escape from which he frequently referred back to during his career).

Park La Brea, Los Angeles

As the towers are relatively isolated from the rest of the Miracle Mile — set far back from major thoroughfares in a nod to Le Corbusier, they developed a reputation as "the projects," since they are reminiscent of such notorious housing developments as Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes and New York's Queensbridge.

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