Taking Off in the City: Mexicans from Hull House and Pilsen Areas in Chicago's Near West Side, 1910-1960

Mexicans have been moving to Chicago in significant numbers since the early 1900s; and the city has continued to be home to one of largest Mexican populations in the U.S. In spite of labor-exploitation, discrimination and repatriation, as well as housing, schooling, health and other problems, they became an indelible part of the Chicago and U.S. immigrant experience. Delgado traces the arrival of Mexican immigrants to the city's Jane Addams Hull House area; he portrays how that community de...