page_title: Humboldt Park, Chicago
section_title: Fiestas Puertorriqueñas and The People's Parade on Division Street
hierarchical_section_title: Humboldt Park, Chicago / Puerto Rican community / Fiestas Puertorriqueñas and The People's Parade on Division Street
caption_attribution_description: Español: Fiestas Puertorriquenas English: Personal photograph of Fiestas Puertorriquenas: 1234 N. Kedzie Ave. Chicago, IL 60651
context_page_description: Humboldt Park, one of 77 designated community areas, is on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Humboldt Park neighborhood is known for its dynamic social and ethnic demographic change over the years. The Puerto Rican community has identified strongly with the area since the 1970s; Humboldt Park is also the name of a 207-acre park adjacent to the community area.
context_section_description: Every summer, there is the tradition of Fiestas Puertorriquenas in Humboldt Park (the park itself, as well as the neighborhood). The parade, named The People's Parade, takes place along Division Street between Western Avenue and California Avenue. The park is transformed into a party, replete with top live performers of salsa, merengue, bomba, plena, reggaeton (and its relative, hip-hop espanol) and other Puerto Rican and related Afro-Caribbean music (e.g. Dominican-based Bachata; Cuban Son, Son-Montuno, Rumba). There is a carnival with amusement rides and Puerto Rican food: arroz con gandules, pollo guisado, pinchos, mofongo, and alcapurrias (just to name a few of the foods). Vendor booths purvey the food as well as deejays playing traditional and new Chicago house music with Spanish vocals and soulful (often orchestral Latin-jazz laden) Afro-Caribbean syncopated rhythms.
caption: Fiestas Puertorriquenas celebrating next to historic 204 acre Humboldt Park.
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