• Pioneer Trust and Savings Bank Building
• Humboldt Park (adjacent)
• North Avenue commercial corridor
• Our Lady of the Angels site

West Humboldt Park takes its name from its position west of Sacramento Boulevard within the larger Humboldt Park community, itself named in 1869 for German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Waves of German, Scandinavian, Polish, Russian Jewish, and Italian immigrants settled the area following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, drawn by expanding public transit and the nearby namesake park designed by William Le Baron Jenney and later shaped by Jens Jensen.

By the 1940s and 1950s, West Humboldt Park was known as a safe, solidly middle-class neighborhood, and the historic Pioneer Trust and Savings Bank Building at Pulaski and North Avenue once ranked among the country's 300 largest commercial banks. The commercial intersection at North and Pulaski became a nucleus of streetcar activity after transit lines arrived in 1895 and 1911.

For anyone whose family built a life along these West Side streets, MY-NHD's West Humboldt Park tee is a way to carry that history with you.