Pilsen

Homeowners in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood are voiced their concerns about a shocking spike in in a meeting Friday with the Cook County Assessor.

Logan Garcia was a junior at Juarez High School in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood when a rumor spread on campus last year: A local nonprofit had offered to pay for students to go to college for free, regardless of grades.

Plus, if you want to make a weekend of it there’s lots to do in Pilsen too.

Resurrection is active in Pilsen and Little Village, where Reyes said it owns and manages about 600 rental units along with 142 in Melrose Park.

The film selected for Saturday is titled Pilsen Backyard Circus, which features performance artists from the 80s.

The Mole de Mayo festival takes place in the Pilsen neighborhood.

Chicago police fatally shot a male Aug. 18, 2024, in Pilsen.

I think my friends love to say they stay with me in Pilsen because they can claim to have roots here, in some way, beyond a temporary and sterile hotel room.

Last week, two Chicago Public Schools students at Philip D. Armour Elementary School in Bridgeport and Cooper Dual Language Elementary Academy in Pilsen were among a handful of additional cases.

Yollocalli has also run a satellite art studio at Barrett Park in Pilsen since 2011 and moved its headquarters to the Little Village Boys and Girls Club in 2013.

At least four parked vehicles were stolen in January and February 2020 in Pilsen and the Heart of Chicago.

At least four parked vehicles were stolen recently in Pilsen and the Heart of Chicago on the Lower West Side.

In October 2015, VH1 launched Black Ink Crew: Chicago, a reality show chronicling the intertwining lives of tattoo artists working at 9 Mag, a Black-owned and -operated tattoo parlor in Pilsen.

On Friday, Lightfoot contended her remarks about Pilsen’s resurgence were “not fulsome” and she never meant to belittle the problems faced by longtime residents, many of them working-class Mexican American people, being priced out by new development.

Sigcho-Lopez said he has other options he will introduce in the coming months to address development in Pilsen, and community concerns that the neighborhood keeps its character and stays affordable.

Speaking slowly and deliberately, the brother of a man shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in Pilsen last month choked back tears.

Two years ago, city officials proposed designating part of Pilsen as a Historic Landmark District, which would have made the Southwest Side neighborhood one of the largest in the city and the only Latino neighborhood deemed historic.

A handful of Chicago police officers were on the scene for a large part of the 45-minute exchange in Pilsen.

It still occupies its original building in Pilsen at 1919 W. Cullerton St.

Over the last two years, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Pilsen listed by real estate agents hovered around $1,600 a month while three-bedrooms went for an average of $2,050 a month, according to data obtained by the Sun-Times.