Humboldt Park, a Chicago community with a rich, diverse cultural heritage, is located on Chicago's Northwest Side and centers on the 207-acre park (one of Chicago's largest parks) named for the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Annexed to Chicago in 1869, the small prarie settlement became home to waves of German and Scandinavian immigrants. During the 1920s and 30s Italian Americans and German and Russian Jews entered the community to take advantage of the newer and larger apartments. Later, during the 1950s and 60s, Humboldt Park saw it's first massive migration of Puerto Ricans which accounts for the majority of the population today though it does remain extremely diverse.
Humboldt Park remains today much as it was in the past; a working-class neighborhood filled with older frame and bricks houses, flats, courtyard buildings and somewhat newer brick bungalows. Those who want to start families and avoid the high price of real estate in the city are taking up residence in the afforable homes found in Humboldt Park.
The Division Street Corridor (also known as Paseo Boricua) is host to the annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade in June and the Fiesta Boricua, a Puerto Rican Pride festival, in September. This festival attracts over 160,000 people each year.
