Pilsen (Chicago, Illinois)
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Currently Chicago's largest Mexican neighborhood, it was originally a Czech area named after Plzen, Czech Republic.
The Czechs had replaced the Germans, who settled there first with the Irish in the mid 1800's. Beginning in the late 1960s Pilsen became increasingly Mexican, as people were forced to move when their former enclave to the North of Pilsen was torn down to make way for the University of Illinois at Chicago. Latinos became the majority in 1970 when they surpassed the Polish population who were the majority in the 1960s. The neighborhood has served as the port of entry for many undocumented workers since. Many elderly central Europeans also still remain in Pilsen, some even without English language skills. Pilsen's Mexican population is increasingly dwarfed by what has become the largest Mexican neighborhood in Chicago, Little Village.
The Czechs had replaced the Germans, who settled there first with the Irish in the mid 1800's. Beginning in the late 1960s Pilsen became increasingly Mexican, as people were forced to move when their former enclave to the North of Pilsen was torn down to make way for the University of Illinois at Chicago. Latinos became the majority in 1970 when they surpassed the Polish population who were the majority in the 1960s. The neighborhood has served as the port of entry for many undocumented workers since. Many elderly central Europeans also still remain in Pilsen, some even without English language skills. Pilsen's Mexican population is increasingly dwarfed by what has become the largest Mexican neighborhood in Chicago, Little Village.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_West_Side,_Chicago
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Coordinates: 41°51'4"N 87°39'23"W
- South Deering 15 km
- Hammond, Indiana 19 km
- Proviso Township 23 km
- Indiana Harbor Works - ArcelorMittal 23 km
- Leyden Township 26 km
- Niles Township 27 km
- Chicago, Illinois 30 km
- U.S. Steel Gary Works 31 km
- Maine Township 32 km
- Frankfort Township 40 km
- Fisk Generating Station 0.2 km
- Boat yard-- now vacant 0.6 km
- Benito Juarez Community Academy High School 0.6 km
- City of Chicago - Department of Streets & Sanitation 0.8 km
- Henry C. Palmisano Nature Park 1.1 km
- Canalport Riverwalk Park 1.4 km
- McGuane Park 1.4 km
- Ashland Marketplace 1.6 km
- Bridgeport 1.7 km
- South fork of the south branch of the Chicago River 1.9 km
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