Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
New Book Traces History of Mexicans in Chicago
Clip: 2/26/2022 | 7m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
We talk to the author of a new book that looks at how Chicago's Mexican communities formed
The story of how La Villita and Chicago's other Mexican enclaves developed is the subject of a new book. It's called "Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification," and it walks the streets of the city's Mexican communities and explores the history of the forces that shaped them.
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Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices is a local public television program presented by WTTW
Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
New Book Traces History of Mexicans in Chicago
Clip: 2/26/2022 | 7m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
The story of how La Villita and Chicago's other Mexican enclaves developed is the subject of a new book. It's called "Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification," and it walks the streets of the city's Mexican communities and explores the history of the forces that shaped them.
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