by melineh | Jun 9, 2021 | Good Question
By Melina Chalkia, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 After her parents relocated from Mexico to Pilsen in the early 1950s, Victoria Romero found the place she calls home. She feels that the Pilsen community where she’s now lived her whole...
by melineh | Jun 3, 2021 | Identity, Work, Jobs and Money
By Melina Chalkia, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Hector Duarte unlocks the purple, wooden door to his studio — a building covered in a colorful mural, portraying a Mexican immigrant trapped...
by melineh | May 14, 2021 | About, Our Staff
By Melina Chalkia, Medill, Immigrant Connect May 2021 It’s Sunday evening, summer of 2019, and I slowly pull the heavy, kitchen door open to grab...
