Puerto Rican Cultural Center

The Batey Urbano was the site of this year's 15th Annual Pancake Waffle Breakfast fundraiser sponsored by the Friends of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. From 9:30-12:30, over 200 people ate a delicious vegetarian breakfast and listened to videos of the Puerto Rican political prisoners, Carlos Alberto Torres and...

by Nilda Flores González "Paseo Boricua," a mile-long segment of Division Street in Chicago′s Humboldt Park community, came as a response to the encroaching gentrification and displacement of Puerto Ricans in the communities of West Town and Humboldt Park. This essay examines the creation of an economic, political, and cultural...