BORN IN HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., Estefan Linares is a 23-year-old alumnus of the University of Notre Dame. His father is from Peru and his mother…
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LUZ MARÍA COSTILLA is a 21-year-old, bilingual, first-generation college student who is attending Columbia College Chicago. She is studying music, keyboards more specifically, and she…
BORN IN ELGIN, Ill., Nadia Alfaro is a 20-year-old who identifies herself as Mexican but also struggles with the term “Mexican-American” for her identity. Alfaro’s…
PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO native Johnny Rodríguez, 60, lives in Logan Square and works as a real estate home inspector. He identifies as Latino or Puerto…
MEXICO-BORN Sonia Sauceda is the manager of the Panadería Nuevo León bakery, located at 1634 West 18th St. in the Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago. Sauceda,…
CHICAGO BORN AND raised, Melissa Magaña is a 29-year-old Latina who lives in Brighton Park. Her parents are both from Mexico; her mother from Puebla…
ENRIQUE GÓMEZ IS a 22-year-old first-generation American living in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago. His mother immigrated from El Salvador and his father from Mexico.…
BEING A TEACHER IS one of the toughest jobs. Guadalupe Palacios, 26, is an elementary school teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Berwyn, Ill. Palacios…