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A 6 page paper which examines how the Mexican culture was introduced in Chicago, how it has grown, and some of its influences. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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they surpassed the African Americans as the largest minority group in 2004, a year earlier than predicted. By the year 2050, projections indicate that one out of every four
Americans will be Hispanic, and what is amazing is that seventy-five percent of those immigrants, most of whom originate from Mexico, live in only five of the fifty states: California,
Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois (Robinson, 1998). The biggest surprise of these states is the large concentration of Mexicans who call Chicago - a metropolitan urban center that
has never forgotten its midwestern roots - home. Why Chicago? Perhaps it really is not all that surprising that the seeds of Mexican culture took root in
a city that has always had a high ethnic content. But most of the early immigrants to Chicago were mainly of European descent, and most notably included the Irish
and the Poles, which influenced not only culture but also local politics (Robinson, 1998). The first Mexican immigrants arrived in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century for
the same reason other immigrants relocated to America, the promise of employment. These early Mexican transplants found plenty of work on the construction of a vast network of railroads
(Robinson, 1998). Even more arrived after World War II to work in Chicagos many steel mills, and within a few years the number of Mexicans living in the appropriately
nicknamed windy city topped 600,000 (Robinson, 1998). According to Rob Paral, the research director of Chicagos Latino Institute, "Chicagos weather is so harsh that the only reason Latinos come
here is for jobs" (Robinson, 1998, p. 26). They keep coming year after year because the citys consistently strong manufacturing base has kept unemployment rates low (Robinson, 1998).
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