Pilsen

Three people sit at a table and write, with a multipaned and stained glass window behind them, during a Sunday session at Healthy Hood Chicago.

Pilsen

Fighting inequality with music: Pilsen nonprofit is awarded $150k to help young artists

Healthy Hood, which provides Chicago youth with resources to create music and art, received the grant from the Lewis Prize for Music, a philanthropic organization dedicated to music education.

By Phyllis Cha

A vacant storefront along the Magnificent Mile shopping district on October 21, 2021.

La Voz Chicago

15 organizaciones reciben $2.7 millones para revitalizar tiendas vacantes

La administración de Johnson lanzó una convocatoria de solicitantes en septiembre pasado como parte del Programa de Activación de Tiendas para Negocios Pequeños.

By Kaitlin Washburn

Money

15 community organizations awarded $2.7 million to revamp vacant storefronts

Groups receiving the funds will use them to revitalize commercial corridors across Chicago, including Michigan Avenue downtown and business districts in Garfield Park, Pilsen, Humboldt Park, Uptown, West Loop, Lake View and Chatham.

By Kaitlin Washburn

Angélica Rodríguez y Alfonzo Arroyo Jr., quienes ganaron la lotería para obtener la primera licencia de matrimonio del Condado de Cook en 2024, observan cuando el ex juez del condado, Travis Richardson, firma su certificado de matrimonio el martes durante una ceremonia en la oficina de la secretaría del Condado de Cook.

La Voz Chicago

Pareja de Pilsen es la primera en casarse en el condado en 2024

Todo fue tan de último momento que no estaban seguros adónde irían a almorzar después de la ceremonia.

By Kaitlin Washburn

Chicago

Pilsen couple become first Cook County newlyweds of 2024

They met waiting for a CTA bus headed for Navy Pier six years ago and beat out over 200 other couples to receive Cook County’s first marriage license of the new year.

By Kaitlin Washburn

Una mujer lleva a un niño a la puerta del refugio para migrantes de Pilsen, donde Jean Carlos “Jeremías” Martínez Rivero, de 5 años, se enfermó y murió el 17 de diciembre. | Anthony Vazquez/Archivos Sun-Times

Immigration

Health care services at Pilsen migrant shelter fall short of promises, medical advocates say

The city has said migrants in shelters receive health screenings. A source close to the matter said out of the few thousand at the Pilsen shelter where a child died, only a few hundred have been screened.

By Michael Loria

Visitors to a vigil on Wednesday left flowers and candles for Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, a 5-year-old boy who became sick at a Pilsen migrant shelter and died Sunday. The shelter houses more than 2,300 people, more than half of them minors, and residents say conditions are unsanitary.

Immigration

Heartbreaking details shed light on the last hours of 5-year-old boy’s life at Pilsen migrant shelter

Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero died Sunday afternoon after suffering a medical episode at the migrant shelter on Cermak Road and Halsted Street where the family was staying, according to police. Autopsy results were still pending Thursday afternoon.

By Mohammad Samra

Candles and a bouquet of flowers surround a photo of 5-year-old Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero.

Immigration

Calls for more medical resources follow death of 5-year-old staying at Pilsen migrant shelter

Hundreds gathered at a vigil for Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, leaving flowers and balloons at a memorial on the sidewalk outside the shelter for asylum-seekers. ‘He was a beautiful boy, he was always happy.’

By Emmanuel Camarillo

A dull blue warehouse turned migrant shelter in Pilsen is seen in an industrial neighborhood with grey cloudy skies above.

Immigration

5-year-old boy dies, 5 others hospitalized after becoming ill at Pilsen migrant shelter

The boy died Sunday at Comer Children’s Hospital, and four girls and a woman were taken to hospitals at different times Monday with fever and vomiting, official said.

By Michael Loria and Kade Heather

Dusek’s Tavern and Dining Room abrió en 2013 en el interior de Thalia Hall en Pilsen.

Food and Restaurants

Thalia Hall loses Dusek’s, seeks to expand building

The tavern-restaurant announced Wednesday that it will shut down at the end of dinner service on New Year’s Eve.

By Erica Thompson

Carlos Tortorelo y otros maestros de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago fundaron el Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano en 1987.

Columnists

The teachers who started a museum

Carlos Tortolero and five other staffers from Bowen High School were disgusted with how Mexican culture was taught in Chicago public schools. So they did something about it.

By Neil Steinberg

Jamarcus Ellis, who played basketball at Westinghouse and Indiana, died in a car crash on Friday morning.

High School Basketball

Westinghouse basketball legend Jamarcus Ellis, 38, dies after vehicle hits viaduct

Jamarcus Ellis, one of the best basketball players in Westinghouse High School history, died early Friday morning.

By Michael O’Brien

Salvador Herrera y sus hermanas Marcelina (izquierda) y Remedios en un juego de los White Sox. Él fue asesinado mientras conducía frente a un robo de auto en University Village. | Cortesía

Crime

Pilsen family devastated, enraged after brother shot to death driving home from work

Salvador Herrera’s family members say they’re frustrated with the police investigation after Sunday’s slaying near a car break-in in University Village.

By David Struett

Muchos residentes del vecindario simpatizaron con la difícil situación de los recién llegados, pero se preguntaron por qué los inmigrantes que han estado aquí durante años no reciben los mismos niveles de ayuda.

La Voz Chicago

Abren refugio en Pilsen para reciente ola de migrantes, vecinos se quejan de altos impuestos

Se espera que una bodega en el 2241 S. Halsted comience a recibir migrantes el martes.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

Immigration

At Pilsen community meeting on migrants, residents call for relief from spiking property taxes

Some are happy to offer a ladder to new arrivals. Others decry the lack of services for locals. About 400 migrants could move into an area shelter as soon as Tuesday.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

The mural “Sweet Dreams” by the artist Luyu.

‘We all have a soft spot for treats,’ artist behind new Pilsen mural says

By Sun-Times staff

Larry Snelling Chicago police superintendent community forum National Museum of Mexican Art

City Hall

Mayor’s pick for top cop asks for collaboration from community at public forum: ‘We have to be partners in this’

Larry Snelling called on the public to be partners with the Chicago Police Department in addressing deep-rooted community problems and fighting crime.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

Scaffolding hangs around the closed St. Adalbert Catholic Church located at 1650 W. 17th St. in the Pilsen neighborhood, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.

Chicago

Century-old St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen under contract with Miami-based buyer

The buyer hopes to turn the building — empty for years as former parishioners and the Archdiocese of Chicago fought over its fate — into an events space.

By Michael Loria

Details of the stained glass window above the altar at St. Adalbert Church taken in 2023 by researchers from Poland studying the cultural patrimony of Polish immigrants in the Midwest.

Religion

Stained glass removed from century-old church, preservationists allege, despite landmarking recommendation

The preliminary recommendation was supposed to prevent removal of the stained glass.

By Michael Loria

Crime

Man fatally shot in Pilsen

Oscar Etamayo Martinez, 36, was in the 1500 block of West 18th Street about 2:40 a.m. Sunday when someone fired shots.

By Sun-Times Wire

Chicago

Century-old church in Pilsen gets landmark recommendation from city

The first step in the landmarking process protects the building at the heart of a contentious neighborhood fight from being dismantled or sold.

By Michael Loria

La Voz Chicago

Presionan para considerar la Iglesia San Adalberto un monumento histórico

Feligreses protestaron la remoción de las ventanas originales y en apoyo de asignar el estatus de preservación.

By Michael Loria

News

Century-old church in Pilsen to get hearing on landmark status: ‘A treasure for the community’

Preservationists say the designation would save St. Adalbert Church from being demolished by the Archdiocese of Chicago, which closed the church in 2019. The hearing is on Monday.

By Michael Loria

Weather

Chicagoans get creative to keep pets cool

The city’s heat index — a measurement of how hot it feels when humidity is factored in — reached 105 degrees in some parts of the city Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

By Violet Miller

Gilberto Viera, 22, sits outside an independent migrant shelter in Pilsen where he stayed for several months.

Volunteer-run migrant shelter in Chicago ‘left in the lurch,’ seeks support from city

By Michael Loria

Chicago Department of Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara The Resurrection Project Casa Durango affordable housing Pilsen neighborhood

City Hall

One of the stars of Lightfoot’s Cabinet is moving on

Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara said she decided when she took the $189,996-a-year job to work at a “four-year pace.” The time has run out. Her resignation takes effect July 28.

By Fran Spielman

Matthew Jesiolowski’s abstract murals on an exterior wall of Chicago Auto Recon Body Shop, 1358 W. Cermak Rd.

For Pilsen body shop mural, artist drew on the work of Jackson Pollock and Shel Silverstein

By Katie Anthony

This mural at 2135 S. Western Ave. was inspired by the 1996 sci-fi comedy film “Mars Attacks!”

When your kids love ‘Mars Attacks!’ Chicago tattoo shop owner figured you need a mural with aliens

By Sun-Times staff

Felix, 72, who received $500 a month from the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot, at his home in Pilsen, where he is his wife’s main caretaker. “It was a success having those $500 that they would give us,” he said. “Because it was a lot of help to me.”

How guaranteed-income programs helped these Chicago-area residents

By Elvia Malagón and Esther Yoon-Ji Kang

Jailyn Brown, who has been receiving $500 through the Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, at a bus stop in Bronzeville on her way to her job in Bucktown. Brown said she uses some of the money for rideshares but usually takes a bus.

Are guaranteed-income programs working?

By Elvia Malagón and Esther Yoon-Ji Kang