| Humboldt Park
located on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois,
is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community
areas. The name may be used to describe the area as
a community or the actual 207 acre (0.8 km²) park
itself. The neighborhood has a diverse population and
is home to a high concentration of Puerto Ricans.
In conventional use, the neighborhood's
borders include Western Avenue to the east, Pulaski
Road to the west, Armitage Avenue to the North and Chicago
Avenue to the south.
The Humboldt Park Community Area,
which many statistics about the area refer to, is west
of that area; its borders are the Belt Railway on the
west, just east of Cicero Avenue; the Union Pacific
tracks to the south, along Kinzie Street; Bloomingdale
Avenue on the north; and Humboldt Boulevard, Humboldt
Park, and Sacramento Boulevard on the east. The railyards
southeast of Grand and Sacramento are also part of the
Community Area.
The park was named for Alexander
von Humboldt, a German naturalist famed for his five-volume
work, "Cosmos: Draft of a Physical Description
of The World". Interestingly enough, his single
visit to the United States did not include Chicago.
The creation of Humboldt and several other west side
parks provided beauty, linked together via Chicago's
historic boulevard system.
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