In the Windy City.

BOOKS & the ARTS LOCATED IN CHICAGO'S HISTORIC PILSEN NEIGHBORHOOD, 1831 South Racine Avenue is currently the site of a luxury shared-living complex. Taking his readers on a walking tour of Pilsen, as well as Little Village, the Near West Side, and Back of the Yards, Amezcua chronicles how these neighborhoods, in the aftermath of World War II, became the nucleus of Chicago's emergence as a Mexican metropolis. Whereas other important works on Latinx Chicago, such as Nicholas De Genova and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas's Latino Crossings and Lilia Fernández's Brown in the Windy City, examine Mexicans and Puerto Ricans alongside one another, Amezcua is interested in situating the "Mexican experience" and "its everyday contests over neighborhoods, segregation, and the white defense of property rights" in a broader multiracial and multiethnic narrative. Amezcua's neighborhoodby-neighborhood account of the Mexicanization of Chicago begins in the Near West Side. [Extracted from the article]