Comunidad de Chicago se une a recaudar fondos para vendedor de elotes
Maria Guerrero, La DePaulia Managing Editor
February 4, 2020
La comunidad de Chicago recauda más de $10 mil para ayudar a un vendedor local de elotes a pagar sus gastos médicos y vivienda después de que su vecina creara una página de 'GoFundMe'. Laura Delgado, de 28 años, una ex- vecina de Don Arnulfo Tovar Ruiz, de 72 años, de Puebla, México, conoció e...
The 606 trail’s relationship with displacement
Brita Hunegs, Staff Writer
January 20, 2020
Last Wednesday, the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University released a new report, examining how the 606 trail has intensified the displacement of people in the neighborhoods surrounding it. The study was released just one day after the City Council, and the mayor, approved a six-month mor...
Panel at DePaul event proves power of community art
Patsy Newitt, Assistant News Editor
October 23, 2019
The Latinx Cultural Center held a “Fighting Gentrification with Community Art” panel in Munroe Hall this past Wednesday, addressing the way many communities use art as a form of activism against gentrification. Panelists included Eduardo Arocho, the director of Humboldt Park Boathouse Gallery and to...
Pilsen proposes historic landmark to slow gentrification
Gianfranco Ocampo, Contributing Writer
May 20, 2019
Gentrification across Chicago could potentially slow down in the Pilsen neighborhood. On Thursday, May 16, the Chicago Landmarks Commissioners voted unanimously to recommend a proposal to turn a 1.5-mile stretch on 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood into a historic landmark. The plan will now go t...
Pilsen community fight gentrification with murals
Olivia Mohseni
May 17, 2015
[slideshow_deploy id='11998'] On a cold and gloomy morning earlier this year, Chicagoans protested the gentrification of the Pilsen neighborhood. Signs were taped to the front of the hip new coffee shop Bow Truss Coffee saying “racism & classism smells like your coffee” and “Sabes donde ...
DePaul geography class offers students firsthand look at gentrification in Pilsen
Gracie Covarrubias
September 28, 2014
Every spring, Professor Euan Hague leads a group of 25 DePaul students to learn about the phenomenon known as gentrification by delving deep into the Pilsen neighborhood, a neighborhood that has been at the center of this controversial process for more than 10 years. Gentrification, as defined by ...
