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Starting from Little Village, the bus cuts through and adjacent Mexican neighborhood (Pilsen), followed by a gentrifying black neighborhood, then marches its way through Little Italy, around the circle campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Greektown, and finally through downtown Chicago...
Living in the Mexican neighborhood of Little Village has helped me appreciate my heritage. The neighborhood has boomed and is a lively reflection of Mexico in its color and culture. It was not until I commuted to a high school near downtown on the number 60 bus that I realized how differently people can experience “Chicago.” On those first few rides to high school, I realized how close I lived to one of the largest pockets of blacks in the city. Yet, I had rarely seen non-Mexicans in my neighborhood. I didn?...
...Czechoslovakian, Polish and German ethnic enclaves, closely tied to a junction of railways that engulfed the Near West Side. The early Czech settlers in Little Village honored the Old Country by naming the church Blessed Agnes of Bohemia. Now, the church serves the largest concentration of people of Mexican-descent in the Midwest. I doubt that many parishioners or congregants wonder about the church’s remote name. As more Mexicans arrive and are born in Chicago (Latinos now compromise about 25 percent of the city’s total three million population), it becomes easier to forget...
Zinn compared the war on terror to other wars in the past—the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War and the Vietnam War—that “purport to be one thing but are really something else.” Instead of being a war on terror, Zinn said the current war is motivated by American political, economic and psychological “expansionism...
...Winners ANNA NICOLE SMITH Buxom widow to star in her own reality TV show. It's like Survivor, except the contestants are all geriatric millionaires CINTIO VITIER Cuban poet wins prestigious Mexican prize for literature. He's a scholar, a humanist-and still far less famous than Anna Nicole Smith JON STEWART Comic extends his news satire program The Daily Show to CNN International. Early word has Gallagher pegged for Kabul bureau chief Losers WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA Nelson's ex-wife in court for fraud. All this is just Winnie's way to make sure that Halle Berry plays...