My Hood: Humboldt Park
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- Louis lives in the Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago, and he's seen a lot of changes in his community. He's proud of and knowledgeable about the historic roots of his hood. This video was produced for CTVN in 2007
used to spend so much time in Humboldt as a kid fishing & @ the lil beach swimming back in '98 & '99....
“Humboldt Park will always be a Puerto Rican and African American neighborhood” Fuck this isn’t aging well
PotBoyz Yes African American
PotBoyz West Humboldt Park has a lot of African Americans, as well as Mexicans Puerto Rican’s and afro Latinos, idk how different gangs interact, but it probably depends where exactly. Like grand city is occupied by some gangs while Humboldt Park is occupied by others, so it probably depends on where and when exactly you step foot in.
Very few super poor minority areas remain almost permanently unchanging, but most if not all areas do change over time. People move in, their kids go to school, get good jobs and move out. Or, richer people move in and raise rents, forcing residents to move to collar suburbs. This has been going on in many cities. As example, look at Division and Ashland or Division and Damen.
Gentrification: They did not build condos on empty lots. Families were displaced out of their community. They replaced condos.
Teachers: This young person said that teachers don't help the youth. This film was recorded in 2009. The teachers work hard at Roberto Clemente to engage youth in their education and community. Batey Urbano helps.
I went to Clemente and my mother and aunt work there. Also in grammer school at Richard Yates. The lack of support from schools is not the problem. Grammer school had lots of opportunites. I won a scholarship and was part of after-school activites in grammer school. In HS they also had after school activites and staff were involved with the children. Unfortunately this is not enough. Love, values and stability have to be strong at home from a young age. These gangs also need to be dismantled because they are an easy alternative for the youth. It is very sketchy that the government has not done this.
this video is years old. thank you though for keeping us honest
hope dude still alive and living good
Louis is a great guy and comes from a loving family.
We were parishioners at St.Aloysius Church on Le Moyne (between Claremont and Oakley) for many years.
May God continue to bless him, his family, and everyone reading these messages. 🙏
I have lived in Humboldt Park on Richmond since 1977, most of my life. The area was very tough. Now, it is super nice compared to then. Not being Spanish or minority, people told me that I was crazy to move to Humboldt Park. I loved every moment all those years, and learned a lot from Puerto Rican people, and have many friends who are PR. I would not want to live anywhere else. I hope that PR do NOT leave Humboldt Park. Please don't move to suburbs. Oh, I am Polish.
Humboldt Park is mostly black
@@Shel230 not even close
@@somebb lol yes it is
That's werid if you were born and raised in 1977 then most people in Humboldt park were black at that time
@@Shel230 I mispoke. I was in Chicago since 81 but in Humboldt from 1990 through 1999. There was one neighborhood predominantly black and it was immediately west of the park. The remaining neighborhoods were Hispanic. Clemente High School on Division was easily over 90% Hispanic.
I fear for my life every time I go to humbolt park, can't even wear what I want without people telling me to be careful...damn what has the world come to.
Yep
It has been like that since the 70s
You probably watch too many violent shows on TV and think that the real world is like that. NO. Some people in Humboldt area are poor, but they are nice and decent. Just walk on Division and if someone looks at you, smile and say Hallo. You will be surprised at the goodness you find, if you look for it.
@@ThunderBroomPilot My mother was robbed at the park. I was shot at many different times around the park. I was beat with a baseball bat on Division and California. Even the police stats of murders show a concentration at humbolt park. Maybe you are the one watching too many girly movies.
I was born in the Humboldt Park area. Thank you Jesus for my dad on making the right decision to move my family out of Chicago. I'd probably be in the grave by now had we stayed there.
Same here.
thanks for the upload thinking of moving here
Did you ever move there?
do I blame my dad or do I thank my dad for moving me and our family out of Chicago back in 2000? he hasn't been back in 18 years, I just came back to Chicago and visited Humboldt Park a week ago, ---- July 2018. I was born there, @ Norwegian American. Only my aunt (my dad's sister) still lives around the area.
Thank him. My dad moved me out in 1998. I was 17 years old and by that time I've been shot at so many times and done so many bad things myself that the move saved my life.
@@somebb hello Will, were you upset when you guys moved? Did it take you a while to get used to your new city?
@@vr9580 Yes and yes. The violence was an addictive adrenaline rush and I moved away from qll my friends. The new city in rural Florida was like landing on another planet. Complete culture shock.
@@somebb glad to hear you are doing good. I imagine the weather is very nice over there. It is ver cold up here. I am in ohio and it is like 20 degrees now :(
@@vr9580 I never became accustomed to the weather here. The humidity pushes the heat over the top for me but many here love it. I've always loved the Chicago winters. I was rooting for the Bengals today.
I went to Clemente in the mid 90s and my mother and aunt used to work there. Also went to grammer school at Richard Yates which is almost on Humboldt Blvd. The lack of support from schools is not the problem. Grammer school had lots of opportunites. I won a scholarship and was part of after-school activites in grammer school. In HS they also had after school activites and staff were involved with the children. Unfortunately this is not enough. Love, values and stability have to be strong at home from a young age. These gangs also need to be dismantled because they are an easy alternative for the youth. It is very sketchy that the government has not done this.
Also, I took part in all the activity school has to offer and my family instilled a great morals but the street life and lure is very strong an in-your-face everyday, I ran the streets and was part of the problem for a while until I moved across the country I was no longer exposed to these kind of people.
Brother I'm from NY all I hear about Humboldt park is the negative. But truly its giving Latinos bad name. I praise the fact that you expose the positive side of living in a Latino community. Why can't we just show the positive side of our way of life? So thanks for posting the positive brother.
SilentSteve63 I bee...
i lived there for many years it is not bad at all
@@eddieodom2361 You must be very lucky or very busy to see what's around you. I've lived there for over 10 years and I've been shot at countless times, witnessed many murders, found a body behind my house on Albany, I've been beat up with a baseball bat, my mother was robbed, etc.
I am Polish, but absolutely love the Latin culture, especially the dancing, music, visual arts, and people who are not so focused on working like slaves for companies, but know how to enjoy life and have a good time. In good weather, close to Division and California, I see senior citizens who play dominos and appear to have a good time. For years, while working like a dog, I always envied them for knowing how to enjoy life, and not trying hard to live up to others expectations. Latin culture in Humboldt Park thought me many valuable life lessons.
Of course! Chi city used to be a lot of caucasians, Polish and Italians. Look at these old houses, they have no Puerto Rican inspired design in them, so nobody should be dissing any race in here. Chicago people are Chicago people. Grow up! I doubt Humbolt Park will be forever Puerto Rican town, even with the steel flag up there, but it will be for a while depending on how the younger community will keep it going.
I was in Humboldt park the other day I saw like two Hispanics to every 10 Caucasians . This man must feel salty now
@@franciscodominguezduran3357 I’m sure it’s cuz a lot of new properties being built. The owners of the old apts/houses r charging higher rent. Not many hispanics can afford them like a lot of caucasians. No landlord wants a tennant that can’t afford to pay rent in the long run.
good vid
@bmetoyer94 i use to do it as a youngin... but of course i'm mixed and most importantly, i had my plugs.... over time you open your eyes though. but it's all love
ya i know
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@hardcoverchicago actually they been there for 15 years, PAPA!
I saw them built but dont remember if it was 1997 or 98.
Puerto Rican is a nationality, not a race. I hate when people say latino and blacks.
Go to Loiza, Puerto Rico and the population is pretty much black. There are white puerto ricans and black puerto ricans. There are also asian puerto ricans.
WTF are you talking about goofy
Those ain't blacks there Afro Latino imbesil
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@southbr28 100% true. although there are more euro-ricans, there are allot of afro-ricans in chicago. and allot of puerto ricans friends say their race is puerto rican
My great Grandpa lived at 1621 N. Washtenaw (next to the "L" tracks) from about 1900 till he died in 1949. He was a Swedish immigrant. His daughter, my Grandma moved a few miles north to Foster and Kostner when she married; my Mother and Dad moved to Niles; my wife and I lived in Mt. Prospect then moved to a farm in the MO Ozarks in 1970. My family has gradually moved further from the inner city. Our daughters married Ozark natives and are staying here.
This dood sounds like he jus came fresh out the island
@Tyreak131 Maybe because Puerto Rican culture is big time African
@machetezone Yes your right you don't have to be born in puerto rico, to be puerto rican or have puerto rican culture, what I commented on has nothing to do with what your getting all heated up by. If their is puerto ricans in your family heritage then yes you are puerto rican and have puerto rican heritage.
Dont get mad at me, if I believe the same thing your saying, its all love with me playa
I grew up in the Humboldt Park neighborhood during the 1940's and early 50's. The park was a clean, friendly place of peaceful tree-lined paths where we rode our bikes and had no thoughts of being attacked by thugs. In the surrounding neighborhoods most people didn't even lock their doors. Late into the night, my grandmother could walk along dark streets to visit her friends. No doubt this post will bring hordes of trolls, but their words will not change the facts: Humboldt Park was once a beautiful place for everyone. I hope it might one day be like that again.
Hi Kenneth: I know exactly what you mean. I grew up in East Rogers Park in the 1940's and 1950's. Now, it's called 'Da Jungle' and there are shootings during the nights. I can remember when the janitors used to compete with each other to have the nicest lawns and flowers on the grounds around the buildings. I know that I'll never see that again. It's hard to say what will happen in the future. Diane
Thanks for the good memories, Diane. At least we still have those.
Everyone needs a place, and no one wants to be dis-placed. But I'm finally coming to recognize how inevitable this is, because change is inevitable - for better and for worse. The Japanese have a phrase for this: "Mono no aware"; it refers to the transience of things. Maybe some day the security fences will come down, just as surely as the Berlin Wall had to eventually come down. We have to take the long view. By the way, I remember the East Rogers Park of your era too.
You are so wise, Kenneth. Thank you very much. Diane
Ah! A troll called Jimmy! Amazing how you can publicly display your ignorance and without any idea at all as to how you appear. I wonder what it is about my story that makes you respond as you did, and what it is that gives you the impression that I may be a homosexual. Do you even know? Or do you just do what trolls like to do because they really can't do anything else, or better, than to spend their time making pointless remarks and baseless insults? But, don't worry. You will eventually grow up. Probably you aren't really as worthless as you think (or fear) yourself to be (when you are alone at night and you realize that you are just a little speck of cosmic dust, having only a very little time (because time passes quickly) in this world that you hardly understand and in which - maybe - nobody cares about you at all. But you do have a chance, still have some time to change, to read and think and otherwise educate yourself to serve some useful purpose in the world. Or, go on being a troll, a magnificent troll, the very best (or worst) troll you can be. Maybe that is your true talent after all. At least while you are young. Eventually, as I said, you will grow up, and maybe even get old, and then you will look back at your life as a young troll and wonder how you could have wasted so much time.
ur like 70
HEY I KNOW HIM HIS NAME IS LUIS I USED TO WORK WITH HIM AT MY JOB....HE'S COOL PEEPS MAN...BUT I LIKE THE VIDEO.....BUT U CAINT GET MAD AT HIM I MEAN HE IS JUST SAYING IT FROM HOW HE SEES THINGS AROUND HUMBOLDT PARK..
Cool!
I go to the pourterican festival
not exactly. but it's okay
@Kalakekepr Are you a self hating Puerto Rican? Anyways PUR05X5LK is right, gentrification is killing the Puerto Rican Community in Humboldt Park, its a shame because its one of our most well defined nieghborhoods in the states. Let me refrase that it "was" one of our most well defined nieghborhoods. Every year hundreds of Puerto Rican are leaving. My family left years ago but I came back after college and bought a house on Rockwell.
@Kalakekepr What why are u hating?? on me ur Puerto Rican too.. wtf... im saying that Gentrification is killing our nieborhood im from Humboldt Park too.. i went to live in P.R. for 5 years i came back and the nieborhood has changed alot there is so many new development and hipsters.. now
Yeh I live on Augusta and Rockwell, the neiborhood is becoming whiter every day it seems. Alot of hipsters and other people are moving in, alot of Boricuas are moving out.
Gentrification is not necessarily a bad idea but it becomes a major problem when people who were raised and has grown up in the neighborhood are being forced out. Over the years, lots of hipsters and yuppies have been moving in Humboldt Park and city officials are increasingly raising the rent in the neighborhood......most people can't afford $2500 a month for rent, therefore; people who live in Humboldt Park are relocating elsewhere
For rent costs, look to the City and County for a significant contribution to the costs.
ha and teachers used to get beat up
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They do your eyebrows LOL!
slits in eyebrows have actually fashionable in the urban culture for a while now.
uh you need to learn more about where you live, the flags wert put up 4 or 5 years ago, they have been there for about ten years papa!
You're right because I used to walk to Clemente everyday and I saw them building it , maybe 1997, at first I didn't even know what it was and then it formed the flag and it was surprising to se.
Flag poles: have been there way before 2009 when this film was recorded. They were up when I was in school in the 90's. This young person said only 4 or 5 years ago?
El Paso Boricua: Should be El Paseo Boricua.
Caucasians: ????? They are not Caucasians they are white or European American. Refer to "Caucus" mountains to get a historical perspective on that "label".
Facts preach
I saw them built. It was in 1997 or 98 but definately no later than summer of 1998.
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Humboldt park is the mother land of Gangs
For Latino gangs for most part
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at least they didn't shoot him in front of you.lol I've been there, it's not so bad. I used to go to Church of Christ on North Ave back in 04, and we used to preach in the area neighborhoods. I used to go fishing at Humbolt Park and catch frogs. Hardly, any problems but a lot of bums. Now Austin area is worst in terms of crime, etc.
I just don't understand people live in there and thinking it wasn't bad. I've lived there for over 10 years throughout the 90s and it was the craziest place I've ever lived in my life
I am white and I have been living in Humboldt for the last 6 months. I guess everyone hates me?
Also Sports Kutz gives great haircuts!
Not unless you wear crocs
Why didn't you move to Bronzeville by the Lakefront?
I use to live in humbolt park too! Back in 2004 on wabansia ave. at the time it was wild as hell. Lol! America is a nationality not a race, and as far as blacks being from Africa? Not all whites are from Europe that's a little true. My family are part European and native Indian.
Pyro Lon shut yo dumb ass up
I go to the poutirican
No bro. we dont need more police. the gangs just need to stop fighting each other. kids need to stay in school. and we need to stop moving out of humboldt once we become successful and come back and bring new businesses to the community.
It's the gangs for sure. Thats why many move out as well.
Then, why do a lot of them call themselves Caucasians?LOL We need better teachers or better parents to teach their younger ones
Well the white people have been moving into Humboldt park. Lol
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