Chicago leaders react to Biden’s executive order ahead of convention limiting asylum-seekers at the US border
The implications of Biden's order for Chicago are significant, given that it came less than three months before the arrival of the Democratic National Convention.
![Enrique Rivera lived in Pilsen long before Time Out magazine named 18th Street one of the “Coolest Streets in the World” earlier this year. He was there decades before the upscale restaurants and walking tours around the neighborhood and before the luxury houses and condominiums brought thousands of new faces to the area, displacing many of its working-class immigrant population. The Pilsen that Rivera grew up in was plagued by street violence but deeply rich in muralism and immigrant-owned shops that shaped its strong Mexican identity. Despite the recent changes, nothing erodes the fabric of the community that has been […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CTC-L-pilsen-brewery-opening-23_189291508.jpg?w=132 "Enrique Rivera lived in Pilsen long before Time Out magazine named 18th Street one of the “Coolest Streets in the World” earlier this year. He was there decades before the upscale restaurants and walking tours around the neighborhood and before the luxury houses and condominiums brought thousands of new faces to the area, displacing many of its working-class immigrant population. The Pilsen that Rivera grew up in was plagued by street violence but deeply rich in muralism and immigrant-owned shops that shaped its strong Mexican identity. Despite the recent changes, nothing erodes the fabric of the community that has been […]")
