Carl Sandburg Village is a

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project of the 1960s in the Near North Side community area of Chicago. It was named in honor of

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. Financed by the city, it is between

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and LaSalle Streets between Division Street and North Avenue. Solomon Cordwell Buenz was the architect. The intent of the development was to buffer the encroaching blight from the north and west to the Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago. In the process of constructing these mammoth structures an entire community of the first

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to Chicago was displaced. They moved north into the adjoining

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neighborhood and west into Humboldt Park. Both of these new barrios of Puerto Ricans were also gentrified as Latinos continued to be displaced. In 1968, youth who were displaced by the Carl Sandburg Village began organizing their community to oppose urban renewal and transformed their local street

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into a human rights movement by the same name:

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. In 1979 Carl Sandburg Village was converted to

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ownership. While it is no longer as affordable as when built, it is still a relatively reasonably priced housing option within Chicago's very affluent Gold Coast.

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{{Chicago Urban planning in the United States Neighborhoods in Chicago Populated places established in the 1960s