Carl Sandburg Village

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 Puerto Ricans to Chicago was displaced.

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 gang into a human rights movement by the same name: Young Lords.

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.