Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago.

[2] Pilsen was formally founded in 1878 making the neighborhood a factor in the political and economic change planned in Chicago.

In 1934 majority of Poles, Croatians, Lithuanians, and Italians sustained Pilsen, making it an ethnic working-class neighborhood.

Other contributing factors to the increasing numbers include the state-sponsored mass labor importation programs in the United States of majority Mexican and Puerto Rican migrants.

[4] Other experiences included banks refusing to give mortgages because Pilsen had the largest population of Mexican immigrants.

[2] According to the Chicago Sun-Times as of 2023 Pilsen community organizations are protesting the increasing property taxes that continue to force residents out of their homes.