Chicago's Puerto Rican Community
Puerto Ricans in Chicago are people living in Chicago who have ancestral connections to the island of Puerto Rico. They have contributed to the economic, social and cultural well-being of Chicago for more than seventy years. History The Puerto Rican community in Chicago has a history that stretches more than 70 years back. The first migration in the 1930s to Chicago was not from the island of Puerto Rico itself, but from New York City. Many settled on State Street just south of the downtown hotels. There was only a small number of people joined this migration. The first large wave of migration to Chicago came in the late 1940s, where many settled in the "La Clark" neighborhood around Dearborn, La Salle and Clark Street just north of downtown Chicago. Starting in 1946, many people were recruited by Castle Barton Associates and other companies as low-wage, non-union foundry workers and domestic workers in hotels and private homes. As soon as they were established in Chicago, ...
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Division Street (Paseo Boricua)
Division Street may refer to: *Division Street (Chicago) *Division Street (Manhattan), New York *Division Street (Spokane, Washington) * Division Street, Sheffield, England See also * Division Street Bridge (Rhode Island) *Division Street Bridge (Spokane, Washington) The Division Street Bridge is a road bridge located in Spokane, Washington that carries Division Street, U.S. 2, and U.S. 395 across the Spokane River in Downtown Spokane, roughly a half-mile east (upstream) of Spokane Falls. There have been ...

Young Lords
The Young Lords, also known as the Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP), was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. The group aims to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-determination for Puerto Rico, Latinos, and colonized ("Third World") people.García, Justin D. "Young Lords". ''Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia'', edited by Carlos E. Cortés and Jane E. Sloan, vol. 4, SAGE Reference, 2014, pp. 2216-2217. ''Gale Virtual Reference Library'', Tactics used by the Young Lords include mass education, canvassing, community programs, occupations, and direct confrontation. The Young Lords became targets of the United States FBI's COINTELPRO program. In party platform points, the Young Lords may spell "American" as "amerikkkan" or " Amerikkkan"—expressing, among other things, opposition to U.S. military presence in Puerto Rico and suggesting that America's success is rooted in white supremacy. The ...
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Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Puerto Rican culture in Chicago by maintaining the traditions of Puerto Rico by promoting various arts, and providing educational opportunities in arts programming. The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance has two locations: the first is in Humboldt Park at 1440 N. Sacramento, on the second floor of the Humboldt Park Fieldhouse in the west wing, while the second is in a former firehouse in Avondale at 3000 N. Elbridge. In 2018 The PRAA celebrated its 20 year anniversary. History The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance was founded in 1998 to increase awareness, knowledge and access to the arts by Chicago's Puerto Rican community to provide a venue for emerging artists and musicians to showcase their talents. While the Arts Alliance initially focused in serving the Near Northwest Side, PRAA programs now serve the Chicago metropolitan area The Chicago metropolitan area, also colloquially referred to as C ...
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