Category: Midwest
Latino Art Beat competition winners express Hispanic heritage through art
By Deysi Cuevas, trad. Víctor Flores EXTRA news CHICAGO — Founded in 1998 by Don Rossi Nuccio and Daniel Oscar Cisneros, Latino Art Beat is a not-for profit arts organization aimed at encouraging high school students’ artistic talents. In May of each year, Latino Art Beat holds an art competition for high school students in [...]
City Council’s black and Hispanic Caucuses gear up for remapping fight
By Elías Cepeda EXTRA News CHICAGO — Every 10 years the Chicago City Council has to adjust its 50-ward map to reflect whatever new population data is found through the U.S. Census. It’s not just municipal legislatures that are affected – state and U.S. rep districts are also modified. But wherever remapping and redistricting goes [...]
Pilsen photographer Aurelio Barrios and his piece of Chicago history
By Elias Cepeda Extra News CHICAGO — First he brings out boxes. Dozens of them, each with hundreds of black and white photos. Next come the framed large pieces, date-stamped, bright and each with at least two accompanying stories. Photographer Aurelio Barrios is showing EXTRA around his storage facility, taking us through some of his [...]
Promoting healthy eating from the ground up in Little Village’s Hispanic community
by Claire Thompson, trad. Víctor Flores Extra News CHICAGO — Late on a rainy Wednesday morning, a half dozen of Catalina Martinez’ friends, neighbors and fellow mothers trickled into the kitchen of her Little Village house to catch up over chicken salad sandwiches. They clamored for copies of the recipe, which called for fat-free yogurt [...]
Latina entrepreneurs help themselves and others
by Elías Cepeda | trad. Victor Flores Extra News CHICAGO — Tanya Diaz, a working mother of three and supportive wife, knew all the excuses for not exercising throughout a busy week. “I used them all,” she says. “I’d say, ‘I’m too busy with the kids.’ Then I’d come home from work and by the [...]
Illinois Latino Agenda calls for 20 Latino districts, releases proposed maps
trad. Victor Flores EXTRA Newswire The Illinois Latino Agenda, a collaboration of 49 Latino-serving organizations, presented maps Monday outlining 16 Latino House districts, along with a proposal for 4 Latino Senate districts, for consideration by the Illinois legislature as part of current redistricting efforts. The 20 proposed districts represent consensus from the Agenda, a broad [...]
Latina entrepreneurs put a unique twist in cupcakes
By Silvana Tabares Extra News CHICAGO — Horchata, churro, arroz con leche and abuelita chocolate are food items typically found in a Mexican supermarket or sold by a street vendor but now consumers can enjoy these flavors and among others in cupcakes. Claudia and Sylvia Oritz have taken cupcakes to another level. The sisters are [...]
