1993 Paseo Boricua, the commercial heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, is officially inaugurated on January 6th, Three Kings Day, with the unveiling of two steel Puerto Rican flags which are 45 tons, 59 feet high, and 56 feet across. The flags are located on Division Street, one by Western Avenue and the other by Mozart Avenue. Read the article by then-Alderman Billy Ocasio about that moment final It wasn’t a gift….it was a prize
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