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4. The Walkable Immigrant Neighborhood: Chicago’s “Little Village”

verfasst von : Philip Langdon

Erschienen in: Within Walking Distance

Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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City neighborhoods often take on new identities as one population moves out and another moves in. Little Village, on the Southwest Side of Chicago, has gone through changes of name and population more than once.

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Much of this information on the first one hundred years of Little Village’s history came from Frank S. Magallon, Chicago’s Little Village: Lawndale-Crawford (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia, 2010).

Eric Klinenberg, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 16.

Klinenberg, Heat Wave, p. 87.

Klinenberg, Heat Wave, p. 91.

An alternative explanation for Little Village’s few deaths—offered by local political leader Jesus Garcia—is that the Mexicans had a custom of checking on one another to make sure that they were well. The Bohemians had much the same practice, said Chicago historian Dominic Pacyga. See Dominic A. Pacyga, Chicago: A Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), p. 390, for a brief discussion of Mexican immigration to Chicago. Whether the custom of “checking” outweighs Klinenberg’s hypothesis about busy commercial streets and public places saving people’s lives is not clear to me.

Antonio Olivo, “Immigrant Family in U.S. Sees Better Life Back Home,” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 6, 2013, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/mexico-reverse-migration-20130106-story.html.

Edgar Leon, “Business of the Month: Azucar,” Enlace Chicago e-newsletter, May 2012.

Jason Pace, “The Legacy of Cesar Chavez and Marcos Munoz,” Uniting America blog, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Mar. 27, 2013, http://icirr.org/content/legacy-cesar-chavez-and-marcos-munoz.

Kari Lydersen, “Chicago without Coal,” Chicago Reader, Oct. 14, 2010, http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-coal-pollution-fisk-state-line-plants/Content?oid=2558655.

Julie Wernau, “Closure of Chicago’s Crawford, Fisk Electric Plants Ends Coal Era,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 30, 2012, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-30/business/chi-closure-of-chicagos-crawford-fisk-electric-plants-ends-coal-era-20120830_1_fisk-and-crawford-midwest-generation-coal-plants.

Leonor Vivanco, “Long-Awaited Little Village Park to Open,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 11, 2014, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-little-village-park-talk-1211-20141211-story.html.

“La Villita Park Opens at Former Celotex Site,” US Environmental Protection Agency, Jan. 2015, https://www3.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/celotex/pdfs/celotex-fs-201501.pdf.

“Transit Victory,” LVEJO website, accessed Oct. 4, 2016, http://lvejo.org/our-accomplishments/transit-victory/.

Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. 253, 259.

The Two Sixes began in 1964, originally as a baseball team, and evolved into a gang, some of whose members sold drugs, according to the website ChicagoGangs.org, accessed Oct. 4, 2016, http://chicagogangs.org/index.php?pr=TWO_SIX.

See James C. Howell and John P. Moore, “History of Street Gangs in the United States,” National Gang Center Bulletin, May 2010, pp. 5–9, https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/content/documents/history-of-street-gangs.pdf. A landmark first published in 1927, still in print at the University of Chicago Press, is The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago by sociologist Frederick Milton Thrasher.

One who blames whites for the initial formation of gangs is Jesus Salazar, outreach supervisor for Ceasefire, a Little Village antiviolence organization. In an interview with the Gate News published on July 3, 2014, by the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, Salazar said, “Before the minorities started moving in, the majority were white people and when you would go into their neighborhood or move into their neighborhood, they basically acted violent towards you”; see http://www.thegatenewspaper.com/2014/07/drogas-y-pandillas-en-la-villita-una-vista-desde-la-base/. Redistributed as “Drugs & Gangs in Little Village: View from the Ground,” SJNN (Social Justice News Nexus), July 15, 2014, http://sjnnchicago.org/drugs-and-gangs-in-little-village-a-view-from-the-ground/.

“Border Mentality: 26th Street,” El Arco Press, Oct. 31, 2013, http://www.chicagonow.com/el-arco-press/2013/10/border-mentality/.

“Border Mentality.”

Maureen Kelleher, “Schools CEO Funds Safety at Little Village Lawndale,” Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Chicago’s New Communities Program, Mar. 13, 2009, http://www.newcommunities.org/news/articleDetail.asp?objectID=1389.

Ana Beatriz Cholo, “Little Village Getting School It Hungered For,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 27, 2015, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-02-27/news /0502270311-1-hunger-strike-chicago-public-schools-chief-arne-duncan.

Joanie Friedman, “Contested Space,” AREA Chicago, http://areachicago.org/contested-space/; first published as “Contested Space: The Struggle for the Little Village Lawndale High School,” in Critical Planning Journal 14 (Summer 2007): 143–56.

Mitchell Armentrout, “Paseo Trail to Connect Pilsen, Little Village Neighborhoods,” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 20, 2016, http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/paseo-trail-to-connect-pilsen-little-village-neighborhoods/.

Titel: The Walkable Immigrant Neighborhood: Chicago’s “Little Village”
verfasst von: Philip Langdon
Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Buch: Within Walking Distance
Print ISBN: 978-1-61091-868-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-773-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-773-5_5

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