Humboldt Park

The Humboldt Park neighborhood takes its name from a 207-acre park designed by pioneering engineer-architect William Le Baron Jenney, and further refined by famed landscape designer Jens Jensen. Studded with large, fanciful buildings in the Prairie, Queen Anne and Tudor styles, the park is surrounded by classic workers cottages, greystones and terra cotta-tiled commercial buildings. Humboldt Park saw an influx of Latinx residents beginning in the 1940s and the area remains largely Puerto Rican, Dominican and Mexican to this day despite a wave of gentrification.

The neighborhood is enlivened by the work of multiple arts and cultural organizations including the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Two large steel Puerto Rican flags, at opposite ends of a stretch of West Division Street known as Paseo Boricua, were designated city landmarks in 2022.