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Back of the Yards Gears Up for 3-Day Fiesta

Annual street festival will run from June 7th through June 9th along neighborhood’s 47th Street Every year, for the past 22 years, the road along 47th Street, between Ashland and Damen Avenues, is closed off, replacing the usual automotive traffic with rows of food stands, carnival rides and thousands of visitors for the annual Fiesta [...]

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Unisono Festival Promotes Community Unity, Engagement Through Arts, Culture and Music

For the past 10 years, the small gathering place on 18th Street and Paulina in Pilsen is decorated with an assortment of papel picado and colored lights. From sunrise to sunset, the sound and rhythm of musical groups trumps through the space, tempting passerbys to peek in and join in on the celebration. Known to [...]

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FMEL Brings Audiences to Digital Age

The abstract, ambient and experimental sounds of Latin electronic music, have for the most part, gone under the radar in places like Chicago and countries all over Latin America. While many Latino artists and musicians in the city have embraced the digital-age genre and culture, there remains many misconceptions among listeners, something the organizers of [...]

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Unísono: One Sound, One Village

The Resurrection Project’s Pilsen Summer Gathering: Music, Art, Food – Come Together To Promote Peace, Education And Diversity The Resurrection Project is hosting Unísono, an outdoor music and arts festival on Paulina Street’s Zócalo to promote peace, diversity, and higher education with a highlight on TRP’s La Casa project: a live and learn multi-university dormitory, [...]

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6th Annual We Are Hip Hop Festival: For the People by the People

While mainstream “hip hop” has come to be associated with its often violent and sexist lyrics, local youth have taken it upon themselves to restore the music genre in order to promote peace and unity in the community of Pilsen. For the sixth year in a row, Pros Arts Studio youth have organized, marketed and [...]