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Elections 2012: Recap on Local Races

These primary elections were not particularly popular among Chicago residents. Voter turnout was drastically low in the city with about 23 percent of registered voters showing up to the polls. Among some of the local races, the heated 21st newly drawn district race between Silvana Tabares and Rudy Lozano Jr. concluded with Tabares, a former [...]

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Interview with Rudy Lozano Jr. Candidate for State Representative of the 21st District

Former teacher, Rudy Lozano Jr., grew up in the Little Village neighborhood and has geared his career path towards serving the community through education and community activism. Lozano earned his bachelor’s degree in community and youth organizing at Northeastern Illinois University and later completed his master’s degree in educational leadership at the University of Illinois [...]

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Interview with Silvana Tabares Candidate for State Representative of the 21st District

Silvana Tabares is a former journalist and first-time political candidate. A graduate of Columbia College, she worked as a youth educator for WRTE Radio Arte 90.5 FM, a youth-operated radio station in Pilsen teaching radio broadcasting skills before becoming the managing editor of EXTRA Bilingual Newspaper. A native of Brighton Park, Tabares used her role [...]

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Acts of Defacement Target Neighborhood Murals

It was a striking mural. Painted two years ago along a freestanding wall inside the Manuel Perez Jr. Memorial Plaza in Little Village, the mural emulated the colorful images of some of the most celebrated figures in the Latino community—Cesar Chavez, Manuel Perez Jr., Sonia Sotomayor and Rudy Lozano Sr. Despite some residents’ concern over [...]