Pilsen - Chicago - 15 Oct 2017 - 5DS - 004-FLKR555

            Pilsen was settled during the late 19th century by East European immigrants, as reflected in the "Bohemian" architecture. During the 1950s and 60s, Mexican immigrants moved in and eventually Pilsen became one of Chicago's iconic Mexican neighborhoods.

The new immigrants brought muralist art, music, and large families, as well as street gangs and invisible lines of demarcation that divided the neighborhood into dozens of small territories, each controlled by its own gang or gang faction.

Since the 1990s, Pilsen is once again undergoing drastic change, as Yuppies -  young whte urban pioneers - started  to move in. This process has gained momentum over the years and this gentrification is transforming the neighborhood from an impoverished immigrant community into one consisting of artsy, trendy, upscale young professionals.

As a result, the street gangs have lost much of their grip on the community, but the neighborhood has also lost much of its unique smells and flavors in exchange for cookie-cutter Bourgeois boutiques, clubs, coffee shops, and a lot of vacant store-fronts and neighborhood taverns. 

I appreciate the reductions in crime, but I do miss the Braceros strutting down Blue Island in their finest embroidered shirts, the clanking of the spurs on their bots, as their way made their way to Tito's Hacienda to drink and dance the night away...

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The intrepid entrepreneur who was selling the fruit from this pick-up truck, disappeared as soon a he spotted the camera.
Many of Pilsen's residents were already skittish about having their picture taken, even before Trump was elected president. Now that he's in, people are even more fearful, although I fail to see how my picture would lead to the man's deportation. It seems to me that the best way to make yourself known to "the authorities" is to sell fruit from a pick-up truck without a permit...

Taken in: United States / Illinois / Chicago (show map)

Taken on: October 15, 2017

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