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Logan Square was originally developed by early settlers such as Martin Kimbell in the 1830s, forming around the towns of Jefferson, Maplewood, and Avondale, and the area was annexed into the city of Chicago in 1889 and renamed Logan Square after General John A. Logan. Many of its early residents were of English or Scandinavian origin, mostly Norwegians and Danes, and the neighborhood was once home to the Norwegian-American cultural center, the Chicago Norske Klub, with the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church, known as Minnekirken, still standing on Kedzie Boulevard. A significant Polish and Jewish population followed, and Milwaukee Avenue, one of the oldest roads in the area, served as the anchor of the city's Polish Corridor. The route traces its origins to a Native American trail before 1830 and became known as the Northwest Plank Road when it was built with wooden boards in 1849. In 1895 the electrified elevated rail line, today's Blue Line, was built alongside the road up to Logan Square itself, stimulating a major building boom.

The grand public square that gives the neighborhood its name was formed as the northwest terminus of the Chicago Boulevard System at the junction of Kedzie and Logan Boulevards and Milwaukee Avenue, with the square's design involving architect William Le Baron Jenney and landscape architect Jens Jensen. At its center is the Illinois Centennial Monument, built in 1918 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Illinois statehood, a 70-foot tall Doric marble column designed by Henry Bacon and sculpted by Evelyn Beatrice Longman, with reliefs around its base depicting Native Americans, explorers, missionaries, farmers, and laborers. Latino migration to the area began in the 1960s with the arrival of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and later Mexican immigrants, and by the 1990s the neighborhood had become a Latino stronghold. In the last quarter of the 20th century, a growing artists' community led to widespread gentrification, bringing in a large population of young professionals, and the Logan Square Boulevards District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and became a protected Chicago Landmark in 2005.