* 1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

* 1850 – Francesca S. Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint ( d. 1917 )

* 1957 – Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer

* December 22 – Frances Xavier Cabrini, first American canonized as a saint ( b. 1850 )

* July 15 – Mother Cabrini, American saint ( d. 1917 )

She temporarily moved into Cabrini – Green, a particularly notorious public housing development, for a time to bring attention and resources to the high crime rate there.

All but a few high-rise housing projects in the nation's largest cities, such as Cabrini – Green and Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, Penn South in New York and the Desire projects in New Orleans, fell victim to the " ghettofication " and are now being torn down, renovated, or replaced.

Mayfield's father left the family when Mayfield was five and his mother moved Curtis and his siblings into various Chicago projects before settling at the Cabrini – Green projects when Mayfield reached his teenage years.

* Cabrini – Green, in Chicago, USA

In 1992, after the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he left the Cabrini – Green public housing project for school, the Chicago Tribune put every child murder on the front page ( generally no murders were front page news ).

Saint Francesca Xavier Cabrini, M. S. C., ( July 15, 1850, Sant ' Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy – December 22, 1917, Chicago, Illinois ), also called Mother Cabrini, was the first citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

Chicago's Cabrini – Green housing project, which has since been mostly torn down, was named after her, due to her work with Italian immigrants in the location.

1999 photograph looking northeast on Chicago's Cabrini – Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.

Gates has also risen above his earlier circumstances while giving back to the community as senior pastor at Living Faith Community Center in Cabrini – Green, where he works at the Kids ' Club.

On Thanksgiving morning 1994, Agee's older half-brother, DeAntonio, was gunned down at Cabrini – Green.

Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a rented project apartment, 17C, at 963 N. Gilbert Ave., in a housing project ( implicitly the infamous Cabrini – Green projects, shown in the opening and closing credits but never mentioned by name on the show ) in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago.

* Cabrini – Green

Gates was a teenager from the Cabrini – Green housing projects.

Gates would go onto give back to the community as senior pastor at Living Faith Community Center in Cabrini – Green, where he works at the Kids ' Club.

At its peak, Cabrini – Green was home to 15, 000 people, living in mid-and high-rise apartment buildings totaling 3607 units.

Over the years, gang violence and neglect created terrible conditions for the residents, and the name " Cabrini – Green " became synonymous with the problems associated with public housing in the United States.

The last of the buildings in Cabrini – Green was demolished in March 2011.

Cabrini – Green was composed of 10 sections, built over a twenty-year period: the Frances Cabrini Rowhouses ( 586 units in 1942 ), Cabrini Extension North and Cabrini Extension South ( 1925 units in 1957 ), and the William Green Homes ( 1096 units in 1962 ) ( see Chronology below ).

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

Among these was Sister Francesca Cabrini, who founded schools, hospitals and orphanages and who, after her death, was declared the first American saint.

Classy and skillful Gaetano Scirea was the libero, Fulvio Collovati and tough tackling Claudio Gentile the centre backs, Antonio Cabrini the left wingback.

Francesca Cabrini was born in Sant ' Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy, one of eleven children from Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini who were rich cherry tree farmers.

Cabrini was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1909.

Her body was originally interred at Saint Cabrini Home, an orphanage she founded in West Park, Ulster County, New York.

In 1931, her body was exhumed, found to be partially incorrupt and is now enshrined under glass in the altar at St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, part of Mother Cabrini High School, at 701 Fort Washington Avenue, in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

The street to the west of the shrine was renamed Cabrini Boulevard in her honor.

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized in Rome in 1946.

The National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini was dedicated in 1955, 38 years after her death.

In 2002, the hospital closed and soon after was torn down, but the Shrine and Mother Cabrini ’ s room were conserved, though closed to the public.

Cabrini was beatified on November 13, 1938, and canonized on July 7, 1946, by Pope Pius XII.

CHRISTUS Saint Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, LA, bears her name because the Most Reverend Charles Greco was Bishop of Alexandria at the time of its founding, which was shortly after her canonization and he had met her when she came to visit the grade school he attended in New Orleans.

There she obtained the permission of Archbishop Michael Corrigan, the Archbishop of New York, to found an orphanage, which is located in West Park, New York, today and is known as Saint Cabrini Home -- the first of 67 institutions she founded: in New York, Chicago, Des Plaines, Seattle, New Orleans, Denver, Golden, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and in countries throughout South America and Europe.

In Chicago, the Sisters opened Columbus Extension Hospital ( later renamed Saint Cabrini Hospital ) in the heart of the city ’ s Italian neighborhood on the Near West Side.

Mother Cabrini died of complications from dysentery at age 67 in Columbus Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on December 22, 1917, while preparing Christmas candy for the local children.

Mother Cabrini lived, worked and died in Chicago so she is considered one of Chicago ’ s “ Very Own ”.

The Frances Cabrini Rowhomes ( south of Oak Street, north of Chicago Avenue, west of Hudson Avenue, and east of Larrabee Street ) remain inhabited and there are no plans to demolish them.

* Residents ' Journal — written, produced & distributed by Chicago Public Housing residents ; archives contain many articles on activism at Cabrini – Green, particularly around the plans for redevelopment

* Chicago Tribune: Cabrini – Green Columns

Robert Taylor Homes faced many of the same problems that doomed other high-rise housing projects in Chicago such as Cabrini – Green.

Monte based the film on his experiences from attending the real-life Cooley Vocational High School ( which is no longer standing ) that served students from the Cabrini – Green public housing projects in Chicago.

Callier was born in the North Side of Chicago, and raised in the Cabrini – Green housing area.

In 1996, Erwin Rexall is elected President of the United States and that same year, Martha ’ s father is killed while protesting the urban housing situation thousands of Chicago African-Americans have been forced into: Cabrini – Green, one of Chicago ’ s poorest and most crime-ridden housing projects, has been enclosed in a giant structure, effectively turning it into a prison.

* The Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, Queens, is now North America's largest housing project with 3, 142 apartments, following the demolition of several larger Chicago housing projects, including the Cabrini – Green Homes and the Robert Taylor Homes ( whose 4, 321 three, four and five bedroom apartments once made it the largest public housing project in the world ).

Dantrell Davis ( c. 1985 – October 13, 1992 ) was a young boy killed in gang crossfire while walking to Jenner Elementary School with his mother in Cabrini – Green ( a housing project in Chicago, Illinois ) in 1992.