Carl Sandburg Village

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One of the entrances to Carl Sandburg Village.
One of the entrances to Carl Sandburg Village.

Carl Sandburg Village is a Chicago urban renewal project of the 1960s in the Near North Side, Chicago. Financed by the city, it is between Clark and LaSalle Streets between Division Street and North Avenue. Solomon & Cordwell were the architects.

The intent of the development was to buffer the encroaching blight from the north and west to the Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago. In 1979 Carl Sandburg Village was converted to condominium ownership.

While many urban renewal projects failed to fulfill the dreams of their developers, Sandburg Village succeeded. Today, while it is no longer as affordable as it once was, it is still a reasonably priced housing option within the popular and affluent north side of Chicago.