Humboldt Park

A new construction permit has been issued to allow for the completion of a four-story masonry building with five dwelling units at 1118 North California Avenue in Humboldt Park. The entity of 1118 N California LLC, assigned in the permit to an Albany, NY address, applied for permission to build on April 24 of this year, and they received the city’s blessing on July 16. The permit includes a reported cost of $500,000.

A permit was issued by the City of Chicago on May 15 to construct a two-story plus basement, two-unit residence at 826 North Homan Avenue in Humboldt Park. The permit spent 190 days in the Chicago Data Portal before coming through with a reported cost of $715,369.

The first of two two-flat residential buildings has been approved on a vacant portion of North Ridgeway Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The first permit was issued on April 30 for 613 North Ridgeway, 50 days after is application start date of March 11, and it includes a reported cost of $476,400.

A three-story plus basement multi-unit residence at 1247 North California Avenue in Humboldt Park will be saved and renovated by its new owner. According to real estate records, NXT Realty of North Center purchased the property in June 2025 for $1.13 million. The building, erected in the 1900s, had been recently boarded up, but the city issued permission to do preparatory interior demolition in October in anticipation of the rehab. Then, on April 23 of this year, the full renovation permit came through showing a reported cost of $246,000.