Once hailed as the future of urban living, St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe housing project became a symbol of failure, poverty, and neglect. Its demolition marked not just the end of a neighborhood — but the ...

Past residents of Pruitt-Igoe (which was demolished in the 1970s) recall trucks releasing a dense chemical fog into their streets and mysterious "maintenance workers" installing sprayers on rooftops, ...

An rendering of proposed commercial buildings in the former Pruitt-Igoe site. The LCRA has in recent months worked with St. Louis-based Civitas to propose design guidelines for the site. LCRA The city ...

A chilling piece of U.S. history has resurfaced — one that former residents of a St. Louis, Missouri housing project suggest left them with decades of illness, grief, and unanswered questions. In the ...