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…
Posts tagged as “Mexican”
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…
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…
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…
BORN IN MICHOACÁN, Mexico, Tania Manrique was a resource specialist at a non-profit organization. “I’m Mexican with a dual citizenship,” she says, as she grew…
AMIR RODRÍGUEZ (Abdallah) was born in Pasadena, Calif., and came to Chicago to study dance at Columbia College. He is 21 years old and identifies…
Pilsen commuters walk through more than turnstiles at the 18th Street ‘L’ Pink Line stop; they walk through brightly-colored Mexican history as told by Francisco…