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11 unusual facts about Humboldt Park


Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School

Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School is an alternative high school located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park, the former name of Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Buffalo, New York; designed by Frederick Law Olmsted

John Guzlowski

After working on farms in western New York State to pay off their passage to America, they eventually settled in Chicago in the city's old Polish Downtown in the vicinity of St. Fidelis Parish in Humboldt Park.

Jose Cha Cha Jimenez

The few winning court rulings were too little too late as families were once again forced out of their homes in Lakeview, Wicker Park and the Humboldt Park neighborhoods.

Kazimierz Chodziński

Around 1903-1910 he worked in the United States, where he designed, among others, the Tadeusz Kościuszko statue in Chicago in its Humboldt Park and the General Casimir Pulaski statue in Washington, DC.

Around 1903-1910 he worked in the United States, where he designed, among others, the Tadeusz Kościuszko statue in Chicago in the Humboldt Park there and the General Casimir Pulaski statue in Washington, DC.

Luis Rosa

Luis was involved in the campaign against police murders of unarmed Puerto Ricans which arose in response to the killings of Cruz and Osorio in Humboldt Park in 1977 by the Chicago police.

Nothing like the Holidays

Nothing Like the Holidays is a 2008 film about a Puerto Rican family living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago facing what may be their last Christmas together.

Paseo Boricua

The Humboldt Park Paseo Boricua neighborhood is the flagship of all Puerto Rican enclaves, This neighborhood is the economic political and cultural capital of the Puerto Rican community in the Midwest and some say in the Puerto Rican Diaspora.

By the 1950s, Chicago's Puerto Rican community was centered in West Town and Humboldt Park on the city's Northwest Side as well as in nearby Lincoln Park on the North Side.

Paul Roldan

In 2001, he participated in a comprehensive community planning effort to manage development in Humboldt Park, Chicago, on the city’s west side.